Feds’ advice to furloughed workers: Do stuff we couldn’t do
Tweet Few are noticing the pinch of the sequester, though we’ve been told it is coming. Civil Service employees at MCLB Albany have been told to lose somewhere in the neighborhood of 20 percent of their income as a result of sequestration. This isn’t unique to Albany either, but rolls across the entire Department of [...]
Read More →Sequestration
Tweet As you know, automatic cuts in the federal budget-known as sequestration-went into effect last week. A latest poll showed most Americans, 46 percent, said they believe the cuts are bad for the country. 34 percent said they were a good thing, while another 20 percent either said they would have little or no impact…A [...]
Read More →Human Costs Involved In Budget Cuts
Tweet I “grew up” working in a hardware store in Fayetteville Georgia, a store our family bought just after I turned 13. Before that time, my father was a federal government employee. He spent the first 22 years of his professional life as an internal auditor, investigating and preparing fraud cases against those who chose [...]
Read More →Bishop CALLS FOR A REASONABLE SOLUTION FOR SEQUESTRATION
Tweet Special to the Journal WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. (GA-02) issued remarks to the Congressional Record regarding the dangers of the impending sequestration, or across-the-board budget cuts, which are due to go into effect on March 1, 2013. Below you will find the text of the statement submitted for the [...]
Read More →Sequestration More Bark Than Bite
Tweet This week’s news out of Washington will be filled with talk of “Sequestration”. It is the latest manufactured crisis du jour to ensure Americans who pay little attention to politics and national finances have a headline term to add to their vocabulary to affirm to themselves that they follow politics.
Read More →Saxby’s word apparently means jack
Tweet Saxby Chambliss is kind of in some trouble. He is now facing the very real possibility of a primary challenge from other long time Republicans. Now, I’m a Libertarian, and we’re likely to have our own candidate, but I can see the real chance of a primary challenge being successful as they have been [...]
Read More →Congressional delegation speaks to Albanians
Tweet Written by Tom Knighton Mayor Dorothy Hubbard, County Commission Chairman Jeff Sinyard, a host of county and city commissioners, and quite a few citizens of Albany gathered together at the Albany-Dougherty County Government Center to learn about the possibility of sequestration and how it could impact Albany and Dougherty County. Sequestration is, basically, [...]
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