Sequester follies: Longer airport lines for you, new luxury jets for government officials

You know, I'd take the sequester doom and gloom a lot more seriously if it wasn't for stuff like this:

Because Eric Holder can't fly commercial. He might encounter one of those interminable security lines Janet Napolitano says are now necessary because of those horrible sequester-imposed spending cuts. Can't have that, he's important.

I wonder how many TSA dudes Big Sis could hire for $50 million? Yeah, the feds are still hiring. Really. 400 new jobs were posted yesterday, even as the sequester cuts furloughed "essential" government workers. Apparently there are some jobs that can't possibly go unfilled.

The U.S. Forest Service on Monday posted help-wanted ads for a few good men and women to work as "recreation aides" this summer, the Internal Revenue Service advertised for an office secretary in Maryland, the U.S. Mint wanted 24 people to help press coins, and the Agriculture Department said it needs three "insect production workers" to help grow bollworms in Phoenix.

Bollworms are essential. Write it down so you'll remember why the schools are closed when the Head Start funding runs out.

And Secretary of State Genghis John Kerry just airdropped $250 million smackeroos onto the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt so they'll hate us a little less. I suppose he used one of those luxury jets to do it too.

In other news, and perhaps emblematic of Dear Leader's sequestration mendacity, the IRS is on pace to vacuum up a record $2.7 Trillion dollars of our hard-earned money this year. Which to hear him tell it, isn't nearly enough to save "mission critical" federal services like bollworm breeding.

Oh wait, sorry, bollworms are safe. It's stuff you and I actually care about that's on the chopping block. Because the Republicans made him choose those painful cuts. Honest. Joe Biden said so.

Posted at 12:20 by Chris Wysocki   [/obama_watch]   Comments | Perm Link |
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