Billy Long: My Constituents Want More Sequestration, Not Less

[onehandle]

Source: Huffington Post



WASHINGTON -- Nobody is particularly happy about the arbitrary, across-the-board spending cuts taking effect as a result of sequestration. That is, except for maybe Rep. Billy Long (R-Mo.), who said Tuesday that his constituents want even more cuts to kick in.

"The people that I've talked to seem to be doing well," Long told local news affiliate KOLR10 News. "In fact, when I got out in restaurants here in town, people come up to me. They want to see more sequestration, not less."

Long said people in other parts of the country may be feeling pain as a result of the $85 billion in cuts. But not his community. "We haven't seen any measurable effect here at all," he said.

Long is right about one thing: Plenty of people are feeling the effects of sequestration, particularly the nation's most vulnerable. Meals on Wheels, a program that delivers food to the elderly, is cutting as many as 19 million meals this year. Cuts to Head Start, the federal preschool educational, health and nutritional program for disadvantaged children, mean hundreds of low-income parents will be making major life adjustments to accomodate being dropped from the program.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/01/billy-long-sequestration_n_3194099.html

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None of his constituents must be unemployed, because it's being hit from coast to coast.

Must be a 'perfect' district.

[Turbineguy]

1. "My Constituents...

are dumb fucks just like me!"

[Evasporque]

9. all four bloated rich white guys...nt

[SharonAnn]

23. All those who can get out to restaurants and can afford them are doing fine!

Those who are housebound and starving are unseen and unheard by Mr. Long.

[calimary]

2. Well, then let's make sure HIS constituents start feeling it.

They've clearly got the "Meh - it just hits those other people... who cares? As long as I got mine..."

Let's do something to change that!

I think the taker states oughta start giving some of it back. If it's really true (and I think it is) that you only truly understand and can sympathize with how the other guy lives, let's give 'em a taste of it. Your state pays X amount in taxes, well then, you can expect to get X amount back from the federal government in benefits or programs or whatever. Living in a donor state, I've been wanting to see that for a LONG time.

[Xipe Totec]

3. The resemblance is amazing!

[onehandle]

4. What are you talking about?

That's the same guy, right?

[Evasporque]

6. brilliant...

nt

[SamKnause]

13. Funny

I tried not to laugh, I failed miserably. : (

[kimbutgar]

28. I was thinking the same thing about the resemblance

Long is ugly inside and out.

And unless the area he represents is full of rich people then he is full of shit. I would bet a large percentage of the people in his district are on social security and Medicare.

My bs detector went off on this fool's comment.

Does anyone on du live in his district?

[Mr. X]

41. Haha, true...

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[Myrina]

5. His constituents must be corporate ceo's and bankers ...

Sure as hell can't be the average working folk who are being screwn by the hour ...

[Evasporque]

7. Billy the Hut....nt

[benld74]

8. See some of Long's 'more sequestration' below

Staff salaries for example sem to be INCREASING each quarter.
: 10/01/2012 - 12/31/2012 | $303,758
07/01/2012 - 09/30/2012 | $270,892
04/01/2012 - 06/30/2012 | $236,667
01/01/2012 - 03/31/2012 | $216,135
2012 $1,027,452
10/01/2011 - 12/31/2011 | $215,742
07/01/2011 - 09/30/2011 | $209,375
04/01/2011 - 06/30/2011 | $201,083
01/01/2011 - 03/31/2011 | $204,498
2011 $830,698

He's a graduate of Certified Auctioneer Institute.
He is a member of the National Association of Realtors, National Auctioneers Association, the Springfield Area Chamber of Commerce, the National Rifle Association, and the Greater Springfield Board of Realtors.

Long also participated in the World Poker Tour participating in professional sanctioned games including the Southern Poker Championship at the Beau Rivage and the Bellagio Cup.

ALSO :
a member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. He serves on three critical Energy and Commerce Subcommittees: Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade; Communications and Technology; and Oversight and Investigations.

With a biography such as he has, its a GOP certainty he is on such important comittees!

[yonder]

20. Holy Cow!

Looks to me he's been a-grazing at some kind of trough. Public or otherwise. It would drive me nuts to be told I need to get by on "just a little less" by someone of his stature. Maybe it's a gland thing. Like the mouth gland.

[SharonAnn]

24. So he's never held a "real" job or run a "real" business. He's probably uneducated, too.

[Pale Blue Dot]

30. My salary, as a public employee (teacher), went up by 4% in the same time period.

It's nice to know that with the right hypocritical connections, it could have increased by 50%.

[The CCC]

10. Billy Long: My Constituents Want More Sequestration, Not Less

As a Californian I get tired of supporting such idiots from places like Missouri. However as a liberal I'll continue to do so. Not for his sake, but because it's the liberal thing to do.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

11. Just as I thought: fat, nasty, old, shriveled-up white man.

[SamKnause]

12. Politics

1. I don't believe him.

2. I bet he voted yes to get the planes flying again.

[earthside]

18. FYI: He voted 'no'

http://ozarksfirst.com/fulltext?nxd_id=799132

"Congressman Billy Long (R-MO 7th District) voted against the bill. His office says Long believes the FAA "already has the authority reprioritize its spending." Long also tweeted Friday, All Congressmen's flights were delayed today due to debating and voting on the best way to prevent Flight delays. #GoFigure #WashDC"

I just can't look at a guy like this.

[SamKnause]

19. Politics 2

Thanks for the information.

That really surprises me.

[SoapBox]

14. Of course...

another angry, sweaty, white guy spewing his hatred.

[thecrow]

15. Well, Billy, then let's start with your salary.

That would be a great example of sequestration at work.

Billy the Bloviating a--hole.

[Half-Century Man]

16. Probably true

THe one hit hardest by the sequestration can't afford to eat in a restaurant. I can't picture Captain Coronary eating in a soup kitchen....Mainly because they are closed now.
Anybody else think managers at Old Country Buffet break into tears as soon as The Right Honorable Republican Appetite hits the door.

[tularetom]

17. When Obamacare kicks in he can afford his blood pressure medication

cause it sure looks like he's off it now.

[bahrbearian]

21. He looks like that youth consular who lives in his van down by the River.

[jtuck004]

22. Liar.

http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/29/2970000.html

Browse data sets for Springfield (city)

15% of the population over 65
Median household income definition and source info Median household income, 2007-2011 (Springfield) $33,771 (MO) $47,202
Persons below poverty level, percent definition and source info Persons below poverty level, percent, 2007-2011 (Springfield) 22.5% (MO) 14.3%

http://www.bls.gov/eag/eag.mo_springfield_msa.htm - 13 million unemployed.

And that's just the low-hanging fruit - it doesn't include the school districts with 80% subsidized lunches, with families at less than twice the poverty rate, and others.

Though he did say "The people that I've talked to..." . Maybe not that many people want to talk to a real-life Jabba the Hut. Or maybe he just ate the ones that disagreed with him.

[SharonAnn]

25. He talked to those who can get out and can pay for restaurant food.

[warrior1]

26. he looks like he's full of shit

white man shit

[Ash_F]

27. Who can still eat out at restaurants? /nt

[Jennicut]

29. One district does not equal the rest of the United States.

Dumbass can't do math.

[llmart]

31. Someone please tell me.....

who the hell votes for a pig like this?

[madrchsod]

32. he was an auctioneer..yup...his only claim to fame

http://long.house.gov/about-the-7th-district/

boy oh boy, are there some really stupid people in that part of the country.an auctioneer with no political experience wins over an assorted bunch of other losers.

[Sunlei]

38. an auctioneer? this is another R where someone else tells him what to do.

[Bosso 63]

33. His district is made up of ignorant rednecks who are terrified of change,

but I call them kin.

[Kablooie]

37. Strange how eliminating all government services is not considered change.

[Bosso 63]

40. They would claim that they ain't getting any government services.

It's not true of course, but they believe it.

[Arkana]

34. Well, I guess if Congressman Fuck You Got Mine (R-Obviously) says it,

it must be true.

[Kablooie]

35. Why not takes sequestration away from other areas and put it all on his district?

It would make everyone happy.

[Sunlei]

36. all the wealthyrepublicans I know remodel their mansions AGAIN..plenty of extra cash to squander

Living the tax free life and raking in about 10% on some investments must make this Rs constituents very joyfull.

[yurbud]

39. he meant his donors