Continuing on with dire warnings about sequesterageddon, President Obama warns that the across-the-board budget cuts will hurt education and could result in teacher lay-offs. Obama’s own Secretary of Education announced on Sunday: “There are literally teachers now who are getting pink slips, who are getting notices that they can’t come back this fall.” Oh noes!
The claim is actually a lie, or — as the Washington Post explains it — “not backed by evidence.”
The descriptions of the post-sequester landscape that have been coming out of the Obama Administration have been alarming, specific–and, in at least some cases, hyped. …
When he was pressed in a White House briefing Wednesday to come up with an example, Duncan named a single county in West Virginia and acknowledged, “whether it’s all sequester-related, I don’t know.”
And, as it turns out, it isn’t.
Officials in Kanawha County, West Virginia say that the “transfer notices” sent to at least 104 educators had more to do with a separate matter that involves a change in the way West Virginia allocates federal dollars designated for poor children.
The transfer notices are required by state law and give teachers a warning that they may be moved to a different position next school year. They don’t necessarily mean a teacher has been laid off, said Pam Padon, director of federal programs and Title 1 for the Kanawha County public schools. “It’s not like we’re cutting people’s jobs at this point.”
I’m sure Duncan simply misspoke. Or maybe he was just commenting on the information available to him at the time, or something.
In any event, this isn’t the first time the Obama White House has used such scare tactics. To that end, Reason’s Nick Gillespie and Meredith Bragg have outlined 5 key facts about sequestration you should consider before resorting to suicide:
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65Mustang
Feb. 28, 2013 at 3:18pmThe Obama administration can’t make it through the day without lying through their teeth, that’s all they know and they really don’t give a damn if their lies are exposed.
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dballred
Feb. 28, 2013 at 11:55pmTheir lies won’t be exposed–even with the latest Woodward flap. The press (usually, I capitalize the word, but it doesn’t deserve capitalization anymore) is fully willing to take bald-faced lies and, not only go with them, but devise new ways to improve upon them. Candy Creepy-Crawley reinvented history during the debate and I’m sure the sky’s the limit. We’re at war with Eurasia and we’ve always been at war with Eurasia.When the unemployment rate reaches 90 percent as we go the way of other banana republics, I’m sure the press will claim that Bush lied about the unemployment rate all along–and that the 90 percent was an improvement from the 95 percent Obama inherited–or that Obama’s first term began in 2013 and he inherited the terrible economy from his predecessor, Mitt Romney. Whatever Obama says will be lapped up by the press lap-dogs and the idiot public, who gets their news solely from the Comedy Channel, will totally fall for it.
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dballred
Feb. 27, 2013 at 10:29pmWhether the POSPOTUS came up with the idea or not, Republicans fell for it.The original reasoning behind the idea was fundamentally flawed: it was modeled after the Mutual Assured Destruction theory that kept the Cold War from getting hot. Offer up a situation (in the previous case it was a global nuclear war) where the consequences would be so dire that neither side would want to engage. I don’t think a potato chip-sized slice from an Idaho Russet budget falls into the dire category. In my estimation, the Republicans have only one winning strategy: throw in the towel and set the defensive line at the debt limit debate.
Rep. Boehner should announce before the press that the sequestration idea was really dumb (he can mention it was Baraq’s idea) and that the House is going to pass a clean bill that vacates the sequestration altogether. Then we can see how the Senate and, more interestingly, the POS in chief handles it.
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noslave
Feb. 27, 2013 at 6:47pmanothe “SOMEONE CHANGED THE TALKING POINTS??BUT NO ONE WILL EVER KNOW THE TRUTH?’excuse i hope scare-questration actually happens,to show that the crisis/sky is falling crowd of whiners are all full of cheeseits, according to obamas repeating whine all teachers,firemen,cops,etc.always, will lose their jobs if obama and crew dont get all they want,wait till the debt ceiling crisis comes in april?mark your doors with blood ?the republicans will come to kill you first born?burn your house down?waiting to see the whiney B.S.they spew for that crisis??
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Diane TX
Feb. 27, 2013 at 6:33pmI’ve had more than enough of Obama’s Chicago style politics and wonder why anyone tolerates him. Everything done by him is a scheme to manipulate the dumb-downed voter.
If you think things are bad now, just wait until the House is taken over by Democrats in 2015, as the result of the 2014 midterms.
Obama has used his Chicago style politics to demagog the Republicans so much, that even staunch Republicans won’t vote them in 2014. I see this on blogs across the Internet. It’s – that Republican is a RINO, or traitor, or blah, blah, blah.
So stay home like you did in 2012. I hope you’re all happy to have back the Party that lied, cheated, and bribed to foist Obama Care on what USED to be the Republic of the United States of America.
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noslave
Feb. 28, 2013 at 8:05amits seems to me people got out to vote but you cant overcome voter fraud,there was so many reported instances of voters voteing up to 6 times??,yet no one even made a fuss,they remain silent?politically correct?dont make waves?we let them steal our childrens lunch without a wimper.now obamas crew is trying to get the supreme court to keep the lopesided protections,so they may take the house in 2014.
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KangarooJack
Feb. 28, 2013 at 9:00amI understand your tone. I feel it too. It’s sad, I feel no joy watching others “wake up”. At work, it is FINALLY hitting some people. The shock on their faces seeing their paychecks after Jan. 1st – it took most 3wks to realize. One by one, they filed into the office asking the Mgr. about their paychecks. Poor Mgr. -she was put into a position of explaining finances/taxes to ADULTS. Now, after two mos., they are JUST starting to wake-up to the realization that their hours have been cut back below 30hrs. They complain to me about the mgr. – the company – etc. I {don’t smile} I just look right back at them and “Obamacare has done this to you and because YOU didn’t care back then-I hold YOU responsible”. “But Obamacare is free” is the #1 response back to me.
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