{"id":552,"date":"2013-02-26T15:29:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-26T15:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2013\/02\/26\/no-one-wants-it-but-why-are-we-getting-it"},"modified":"2013-02-26T15:29:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-26T15:29:00","slug":"no-one-wants-it-but-why-are-we-getting-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=552","title":{"rendered":"No one wants it, but why are we getting it?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>President Obama says he doesn\u2019t want automatic budget cuts to occur on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans in Congress say they don\u2019t want them either.<\/p>\n<p>And polls show clearly that American voters dislike the notion of automatic cuts.<\/p>\n<p>Why, then, are these cuts on the verge of occurring? Why won\u2019t either side pick up the phone, call the other guys, and sit down for some serious negotiations to find solutions to reduce the deficit? <\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve grown weary of the blame game. Republicans say the White House wanted to include the automatic cuts \u2013 known as \u201csequestration\u201d \u2013 when the two sides settled an earlier budget crisis. The White House, however, answers smartly when it says the automatic cuts were enacted as a sword to hold over the heads of those in power. No one ever thought sequestration would take effect because Republicans and Democrats would fear them so much they would find a way to cut a deal.<\/p>\n<p>Well, that strategy appears set to blow up in their faces. And you and I are going to suffer the \u201ccollateral damage.\u201d For example, I\u2019m betting investors won\u2019t like the result and our retirement accounts are going to suffer some grievous financial injury.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve noted here already that President Obama is in the public-relations catbird seat. He doesn\u2019t have any more elections ahead of him. He\u2019s been re-elected and on Jan. 20, 2017, he\u2019ll hand the White House keys to the next person. Congressional Republicans, though, will face an election \u2013 and soon at that. They\u2019ll be facing voters in 2014 and my hunch is that this ridiculous game of brinksmanship is going to make many Americans very unhappy with their elected \u201crepresentatives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Is it too much to ask that these individuals get back to the job of governing?<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama says he doesn\u2019t want automatic budget cuts to occur on Friday. Republicans in Congress say they don\u2019t want them either. And polls show clearly that American voters dislike the notion of automatic cuts. Why, then, are these cuts on the verge of occurring? Why won\u2019t either side pick up the phone, call the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=552\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">No one wants it, but why are we getting it?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}