UPDATE: A park ranger has revealed that supervisors are attempting to make cuts only to parts where the public will see in a way to make them feel the pain . As FoxNews reported: A U.S. park ranger, who did not wish to be identified, told FoxNews.com that supervisors within the National Park Service (NPS) overruled plans to deal with the budget cuts that would have had minimal impact on the public. Instead, the […]

By Rick Manning — The sequester conversation has been all the buzz over the past couple of days in the Washington, D.C. area. Pastors talked about it in sermons, and neighbors worried about how the uncertainty of what might occur could possibly affect them. As the home […]

By Robert Romano — Another debt limit shocker. Apparently under current federal law, if the debt ceiling — now suspended until May 19 — is reached, the U.S. Treasury gets to decide for itself whether or not it feels like defaulting. In other words, it would be […]

Finally. Obama has decided to retreat back to his 2011 rhetoric where sequester was not a bad thing. Just a month ago, Obama was saying that the sequester would “imperil our economy, our national security (and) vital programs that middle class families depend on.” Further, it would be a “a huge blow to middle-class families and our economy […]

By Adam Bitely — If you are reading this, you have survived sequestration. The world didn’t end. Food is still safe to eat. Planes are landing safely on runways. Invading armies are not storming our shores. And life is continuing on normally just as it […]

By U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan — What do robotic squirrels, Martian food and zombies have to do with the impending sequester?  Everything. The government spent $325,000 last year constructing a robot squirrel to replicate the interaction between rattle snakes and the small-sized rodent.  Meanwhile, NASA […]

By Robert Romano — Somehow, despite sequestration, the sun rose today, and it will set. Schools opened as scheduled. The children were still picked up and dropped off by their buses. Hospitals, police, and firefighters all remained on call should the need arise. Planes did not fall […]

Great news, even with the sequester, the federal government will spend more money next year than they did this year. So there is no reason to panic that the government is going to fall into the abyss.

By Bill Wilson — Time for a little history lesson. Sequestration may in fact have been Obama’s idea, but it was brought to the floor in the House of Representatives not once , but twice by Republican leaders. There, it was approved not once , but twice . In the Senate it passed easily with bipartisan […]

Check out this great infographic from Cato that tells the truth about the sequester. For more on the sequester, be sure to check out ALG President Bill Wilson’s column “The non-existent spending cuts wrought by the ‘devastating’ sequester” .