Secret Service Director Says GOP Sequestration Left Them Down 550 Employees

[deminks]

http://www.politicususa.com/2014/09/30/secret-service-director-gop-sequrestration-left-500-employees.html

In the House Oversight Committee hearing which started Tuesday on the problems in the Secret Service as it has failed repeatedly to protect the First Family, the Secret Service blamed the sequestration budget cuts for cuts in staffing.

Bloomberg News writer Del Quentin Wilber tweeted:


.@SecretService Pierson: #sequestration hurt staffing. Down 550 employees due to budget cuts.

— Del Quentin Wilber (@DelWilber) September 30, 2014

(snip)

Republicans tried to blame President Obama for the sequester after it turned into a political disaster, but the discovery of a 2011 PowerPoint presentation that Speaker John Boehner gave to Republicans detailing his sequester idea killed that mid deployment. The White House has had a plan on the table since December of 2012 to deal with sequestration to no avail.

(snip)

While sequestration is not the only reason for the terrifying failures of the Secret Service to protect the First Family, it does take money to run things. It takes money to pay good people– a concept that Republicans tout when it excuses Wall Street bonuses in the millions while refusing to raise the minimum wage.

(end snip)

Something I am assuming won't be in the MEdia's account. They are all too busy with the Congress Critters' soundbites.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

1. Yea, I saw that. And pinhead trey gowdy immediately tried to deflect that and was

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APPALLED, he tells ya! that Dem Rep Norris would even mention that in the context of not having the necessary manpower due to sequestration!

Here is the video...

Norris comments are here @ 1h 51m 49s:

...and weenie gowdy's stupidity immediately follows.

[City Lights]

2. Well, isn't that special! nt

[BrotherIvan]

3. BENGHAZI!!!!

[blm]

4. Now THIS is one relevant question that COULD be answered publicly, and

I'm glad it was asked and answered.

[freshwest]

5. Yes, it was glaringly obvious to anyone with more than a 3-minute attention span. Like Fox viewers.

Now the GOP's endangering embassy staff and the president will be in the public record.

All government operations have been stripped bare by the Koch lackeys in D.C. and elsewhere.

In order to generate dissatisfaction and make government seem so inefficient it can all be handed off the privatization, where it will not even get the slightest of oversight.

But the real question is, will anyone remember in November?

[malaise]

6. I heard that too

and it is serious

[MohRokTah]

7. So basically, the GOP is trying to get the First Family killed.

Why does this not surprise or shock me?

[calimary]

9. And THAT is the meme that should start spreading.

We should start spreading THAT VERY SENTENCE, MohRokTah.


"So basically, the GOP is trying to get the First Family killed."


Needs to be SAID, READ, AND SPREAD!!!!!!!!!

Who's with me?

[adieu]

15. For some, that claim is an incentive to vote for the GOP.

Sick basterds that they are.

[calimary]

17. Totally true. But there are WAY more of US than there are of those sickos.

And it might give OUR side more of an incentive to vote for the Dems if this hits them like a 2x4 across the teeth. Because if they don't, the GOP winners will ABSOLUTELY hit them like a 2x4 across the teeth - and with shit, piss, pus, vomit, and lots of Ebola virus on it.

[Kingofalldems]

8. Kick this for the GOP crew.

[monmouth3]

10. Remove a portion, not all, SS protection for both Bushs', Cheney, Carter and Clinton if they still

have it. That will free up a few SS people...

[mostlyconfused]

11. More proof that we should never cut government spending

Every penny being spent is necessary for something. Cutting can have these kinds of bad consequences.

[progressoid]

16. Never say never.

There are some govt programs that need trimming.

[grahamhgreen]

21. Except for big war, which was saved from most of the cuts.

[blkmusclmachine]

12. ,

,

[ReRe]

13. The Sequestration...

K&R

.... is exactly why the Republicans are all "Appalled" about the security breaches. They have to act concerned and sincere, to try to cover up the fact that they are responsible for the whole mess. For soon to be six years, the Republicans have hated and despised this President.
Now, all of a sudden, they care about the President? HELLO????

[SalviaBlue]

14. Hey Republicans, Mission Accomplished.

This is what they are doing all over the country: destroying public agencies. All according to plan.

[Kingofalldems]

18. Kick back to the top.

[SickOfTheOnePct]

19. Sequestration was an abomination

But let's put the responsibility where it lies - on the agents on duty that didn't properly execute their own protocols when faced with the fence jumper.

[grahamhgreen]

20. They mock him. They endanger him. Even as he does their bidding.