{"id":13138,"date":"2013-02-22T19:01:13","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T19:01:13","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-02-22T19:01:13","modified_gmt":"2013-02-22T19:01:13","slug":"shameful_abc_news_publishes_57_terrible_consequences_of_sequester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/02\/22\/shameful_abc_news_publishes_57_terrible_consequences_of_sequester\/","title":{"rendered":"Shameful: ABC News Publishes 57 Terrible Consequences of Sequester"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: Now, here\u2019s this ABC story: “57 Terrible Consequences of Sequester.” Now, I wish I had time, I wish I had the ability to go through all 57. I\u2019m not gonna bore you. But I want you to listen to some of them. This is ABC News, the same place Jonathan Karl works. They\u2019re not even on the same page. Jonathan Karl is out there saying, “Well, we\u2019re gonna spend $15 billion more.<\/p>\n

“The public isn\u2019t gonna really feel this.” Over here, elsewhere at ABC, the full monty, babe, full scare tactic, 100% fearmonger, 57 terrible consequences. “Air travel disruption. Longer security lines at airports. Slower extreme weather forecasts.” Slower extreme weather forecasts? “Greater risk of wildfires.” A greater risk of wildfires because the federal government is only spending $15 billion more than it spent last year? Do you realize how absurd this has gotten now?<\/p>\n

No longer do these crises occur if we spend less.<\/p>\n

Now they occur even if we don\u2019t spend enough more!<\/p>\n

“Pest-infested crops will increase. A shortage nationwide of meat and poultry. Prison lockdowns. A furlough of nearly 37,000 Bureau of Prisons staff. Slower gun background checks. Fewer FBI agents. Immigration backlog. The inability to hire immigration judges. Longer waits for passports and visas. Neglect for the mentally ill, the homeless, and the substance-addicted. 125,000 would be at risk of homelessness.<\/p>\n

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“Housing vouchers and shelter programs would be on the chopping block. 600,000 women and children thrown off of WIC,” the Women, Infants and Children program. “424,000 fewer AIDS tests. 7400 fewer patients could get HIV medications. No rent assistance for 7300 AIDS patients. 807,000 fewer hospital visits for Native Americans.” That\u2019s right! If we only spend $15 billion more this year than last year, 807,000 fewer Native Americans will be able to visit hospitals.<\/p>\n

“Dilapidated low-income housing will stay dilapidated. Some will shut down. No child care for 30,000 kids. No Head Start for 70,000.” All of this because we\u2019re only gonna spend $15 billion more. We\u2019re still gonna spend $3.7 trillion, and all this is gonna happen. “Longer waits for disability payments. $725 million in cuts for low income special needs students. Cuts to schools on Indian reservations. Native American tribes would lose about $130 million.<\/p>\n

“There would be a higher risk of terrorism. Untranslated wiretaps. Less surveillance. Classified information would be vulnerable to foreign spies.” We would have an even more porous border. “Untended nuclear weapons.” We have nuclear weapons silos, and people will just walk away from \u2019em! “The US would be less prepared for a weapons of mass destruction incident. The FBI would be using broken equipment and could have trouble tracking fingerprints.<\/p>\n

“There\u2019ll be one-third cutback in the Pacific naval presence. There be reduced Army readiness. No maintenance for some ships and airplanes. 46,000 defense jobs could be lost.” I thought it was 800,000. “Some Air Force planes couldn\u2019t fly. Less cybersecurity. $1 billion cut from disaster relief.” There isn\u2019t any disaster relief taking place. Have you seen the Jersey shore? Governor Christie\u2019s saying, “Where the hell\u2019s FEMA?” Eh, it doesn\u2019t matter, his approval number\u2019s 74.<\/p>\n

All you gotta do is be a fat guy, eat a doughnut on Letterman and your approval number skyrockets. “Coast Guard operations be cut by 25%.” Drugs would be flowing into the country on boats. “$500 million cut from the foreign economic military aid program. $380 million cut from the global AIDS funding program. Less security at US facilities abroad, less protection for Americans abroad.” Why, there might be another Benghazi. Less opportunity to put filmmakers in jail.<\/p>\n