Our 18% Approval Rating (and falling like a rock) Congress had a year and a half to take action to fix the Sequester.
The Sequester was set up when a Super Committee of Congressmen and Senators (of both parties) could not come to any recommendations about anything having to do with our Fiscal Crisis.
In case you have forgotten what the Super Committee’s task was...
“The objective of the committee was to develop a deficit reduction plan over 10 years in addition to the $917 billion of cuts and initial debt limit increase of $900 billion in the Budget Control Act of 2011 that avoided a U.S. sovereign default.”
During the 18 months Congress had to avoid the Fiscal Cliff Congress did nothing to fix the Sequester.
After we officially went over the Infamous Fiscal Cliff, they passed the "American Taxpayer Relief Act" (Those guys come up with the greatest names).
This act has many confusing provisions. (Don’t they always have many confusing provisions?) One of the confusing provisions caught my eye, not because it dealt with the Sequester, but because it gives the Smartfella (that’s me) a chance to demonstrate to you why our 15% Approval Rating Congress (I told you they were falling like a rock) is just obsessed with Kicking Cans Down Roads...
“Sequester Delay for Two Months...Two-month “turn off” of the Sequester putting the new deadline at February 28, 2013. The intent of the delay is to give Congress time to work on a balanced plan to end the Sequester permanently through a combination of additional revenue and spending cuts in a balanced manner.”
They had a year and a half to address this issue. What did they do? They gave themselves another 2 months. That ought to be enough time...Or will it be?
Would I kid u?
The Smartfella.
