Military Tuition Assistance Cut But Not So for Illegals

As illegal immigrants are being given tuition assistance, our government is cutting tuition assistance to our military, using budget cuts and sequester as an excuse. It’s yet another Obama crisis that is completely manufactured.

States like Colorado , California, and Massachusetts are lowering tuition for illegal immigrants and hoisting the bill on taxpayers, but our military is losing their tuition assistance.

The president doesn’t care if he hurts the citizens, with the military at the top of the list because it will hurt the most.

We recently heard about the parks administrator who was told by his superiors in an email to not reduce the pain of sequester when reallocating where the cuts would be made.

If you go to the Washington Times you can see the email from higher-ups that informs the government department to make the Sequester as painful as possible. The email to an APHIS official said in part, “…So it is our opinion that however you manage that reduction, you need to make sure you are not contradicting what we said the impact would be.

Our military should be the last to be cut, but they are always the first. Obama wants you to believe that the budget must never be cut. This is one of his political ploys to prove that as was the cancellation of the WH tours. He even tried to cut the vaccinations of children.

Darrell Issa appeared on Greta Van Susteren Tuesday to report the findings of the President’s own nonpartisan watchdogs . They uncovered $67 billion in waste that Obama could easily cut and which would make up for 80% of the sequester . Obama is uninterested.

Byron York appeared on the same show and said that while they are laying off federal workers, they are at the same time hiring close to 700 new workers out of a 2.2 million work force.

Obama is going to waste $36 billion in military equipment in Afghanistan without a thought. He wanted to give $450 million to Egypt but Congress convinced him to send the lesser amount of $250 million. Federal workers owe $3.5 billion in back taxes – make them pay up. The Citizens Against Government Waste have found that $3.3 billion was wasted by the government in 2012. Any of these, would allow our military to keep their assistance program.

None of that matters. President Obama wants the Sequester (which cuts one-tenth of one percent of the president’s budgetary spending) to hurt so the false argument can be perpetuated:

An email sent out by the Obama administration earlier this week appears to show a strategy designed to drive home the most dire predictions of the effects of sequestration, even if that is not necessarily the case.

Charles Brown, an official with the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service office in Raleigh, N.C., sent an email to Washington officials asking “if there was any latitude” in how to spread the sequester cuts across the region to lessen the impacts on fish inspections.

Brown received the following reply: "We have gone on record with a notification to Congress and whoever else that ‘APHIS would eliminate assistance to producers in 24 states in managing wildlife damage to the aquaculture industry, unless they provide funding to cover the costs.'

"So it is our opinion that however you manage that reduction, you need to make sure you are not contradicting what we said the impact would be.”

On Saturday, $85 billion in automatic spending cuts began to go into effect, leaving the Obama White House with tough decisions to make on cuts. Administration officials have argued repeatedly that their hands are tied by the way the cuts were written into law.

Rep. Tim Griffin, R-Ark., said he believes this email reveals Obama’s true motives.

“This email confirms what many Americans have suspected: The Obama administration is doing everything they can to make sure their worst predictions come true and to maximize the pain of the Sequester cuts for political gain,” Griffin said.

APHIS is an agency overseen by the Agriculture Department.

On Tuesday, Rep. Kristi Noem, R- S.D., confronted department Secretary Tom Vilsack with the email at a House committee hearing.

Vilsack said he hadn’t seen the email, but said agencies are supposed to be trying to find ways to manage the impact of the cuts.

Certainly the Obama administration has made a number of high-profile decisions to cut popular programs that have annoyed voters, such as cuts to air traffic controllers (creating airport delays) and ending popular White House tours that schools have long planned as field trips. These kind of cuts would fit the profile created by the Agriculture Department e-mail.
The e-mail — dated Monday, March 4 — was perhaps necessary because so many of the dire Obama administration predictions have proven to be wild exaggerations or outright lies. ABC News compiled a list of 57 nearly apocalyptic predictions by the Obama administration and its Democratic allies in Congress, including greater damage from severe storms, locust plagues against farmers' crops, more forest fires, opening up federal prisons and setting criminals free, and even the federal government leaving the nation's nuclear weapons unprotected. (Many of the claims come from this White House “Factsheet.”)
It sounds like a joke that a two-percent cut in federal spending (all of which are from projected spending increases, not year-over-year actual cuts) could create that kind of an impact, but ABC News noted of the Obama administration: “They warned of terrible things: Greater risk of wildfires, fewer OSHA inspections and a risk of more workplace deaths, 125,000 people risking homelessness with cuts to shelters and housing vouchers, neglect for mentally ill and homeless Americans who would lose services, Native Americans getting turned away from hospitals, cuts to schools on reservations and prison lockdowns. There's also a higher risk of terrorism with surveillance limited and the FBI potentially unable to disrupt plots, closed housing projects, and 600,000 women and children thrown off WIC.”
Egad!
A few, such as cuts to warrantless surveillance programs and foreign aid giveaways (if they are true cuts), count as unqualified positive reasons for keeping the sequester.
As mentioned above, most of the other predictions turned out to be either wildly exaggerated or outright lies, however. The White House campaign of terror against the sequestration has had media fact-checkers working overtime correcting their exaggerations, and Politico.com gathered ratings from the Washington Post's "Fact Checker" and Politifact.com, and found that they earned “Mostly False” or worse from both on six major claims. For example, President Obama claimed in a March 1 press conference that “Starting tomorrow, everybody here, all the folks who are cleaning the floors at the Capitol — now that Congress has left, somebody is going to be vacuuming and cleaning those floors and throwing out the garbage — they're going to have less pay. The janitors, the security guards, they just got a pay cut, and they've got to figure out how to manage that. That’s real.”
Actually, it wasn't real.
Even the leftist Washington Post admitted that “no pay is being cut for workers at the Architect of the Capitol” and gave it a “Four Pinocchios” rating, its rating for only the most blatant lies. “Obama’s remarks continue the administration’s pattern of overstating the potential impact of the sequester,” the Post reported. “But this error is particularly bad — and nerve-wracking to the janitors and security guards who were misled by the president’s comments.” The Washington Post found that the Architect of the Capitol reported in an official memo that “We do not anticipate furloughs for AOC employees as a result of Sequestration.” Moreover, the Superintendent of the Capitol Building, Carlos G. Elias, reported in an official e-mail to staff rebuking the president's remarks that:
The pay and benefits of EACH of our employees WILL NOT be impacted as per our current plan.... There was a specific mention in the news today by a high ranking official that said “The employees that clean and maintain the US Capitol will receive a cut in pay” (not specific quote but very close to it). This is NOT true. [Emphasis in original.]
Other Obama administration lies include Education Secretary Arne Duncan's claim that teachers were already getting pink slips from the sequester, the president's claim that “federal prosecutors will have to close cases and let criminals go,” and claims about children's "Head Start" and vaccination programs and senior citizens' “Meals on Wheels” program.
President Obama has defined the sequester — which will trim some $85 billion from the federal government's projected spending increases in fiscal 2013 — as using a “meat cleaver.” But the reality is that — despite the random method in which they must be administered — the cuts are closer to exfoliation, if they are made to minimize their impact. And with the Agriculture Department's e-mail, that “if” looks like a big "if."

I touched on the "make it hurt" part in my "silly sequester" post.

We also see this in 12 truths of government:

5. Any law enacted to help any one group will be applied to harm people not in that group.

7. What the government says it could not foresee, the government has planned for.

8. When there is a budget shortfall to cover non-essential government services the citizens will be given the choice between higher taxes or the loss of essential government services.


Yep, government is a force of good.

I guess this is payback for the military's overwhelming support for any candidate but Pres Obama.

At first over 80% of their donations went to Mr. Paul. When he was knocked out, they switched to Mr. Romney.

I'm surprised that no one made a big deal about Pres. Obama actually suing to restrict the military from voting last year when he knew they weren't voting for him.

Yeah, this government is a government of good.