How federal budget cuts could affect Washington state

In my opinion if the government would stop supporting other counties, we would have enough money to support our own country without having to cut our under privlaged families or millitary, and our schools and vital services!!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah this would be such a tragedy.  It's not like in the last 10 years we've increased spending by trillions or anything and then complain about a few billion being cut.  Wait...

WHY IS THE FEDERAL GOV INVOLVED IN ISSUES THAT ARE THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE STATE OR INDIVIDUAL??  If the US could mind it's own business overseas we would not need such a large "defense" budget. In reality there is no Department of Defense, it is a Department of WAR.

This parent is tired of providing the purse for you to steal money from my children and my children's children...because you live in a dream world! .... I overpay my taxes to get a refund each year but darn it you guys in Olympia and DC just refuse to accept reality... and that is this country is broke and if people want all these stupid entitlements everyone is going to have to pay more - not just the weathy as the statistics are out there that shows their are not enough WEALTHY people to cover how much DC wastes anyway! Eliminate those entitlement programs unless you can FULLY FUND THEM (Which you CAN'T!!)  ... I don't plan on social security being there when I am old and gray ... if I live that long so it is better you get rid of ALL these entitlements until you have a plan to fully fund them without depending on 'future collections' .... SHOW ME THE Money pile you think we have because all I see is a YEARLY Deficit 'meaning what we don't have and you refuse to be responsible and cut this stupid excess spending 'DoD'  Ugh!... you people running this country make me SICK because you cannot fracking ADD and think the people are there to cover your back side from your stupidity!

Whatever it takes to help get military spending down. Sorry to see poor people take it in the shorts again but the military had got to be cut. This will be a good start but they need to cut the military by 10% for the next 4 years. 

Oh I wouldn't worry about it. They'll just stick it to us to even the budget as they usually do.

Ah yes... More fear mongering spewed by the MSM with the intention of raising yet more taxes.

Obie said he wouldn't raise taxes on those that made less than 200K a year. I make far less than that, and my take home pay is a hundred bucks a month less this year. In all fairness, he didn't raise taxes. He just let the cuts expire. The outcome is the same on my bank account. Those that don't work for a living saw no decrease in their pay. Weird...

Come to think of it, I get NOTHING from the fed. All they do is take from me and give to someone else that they deem is more worthy of my hard work than my family is.

just don't cut obama's Ophone program. everyone deserves a cell phone. the only reason our founding fathers left that out of the constitution was that they simply didn't know that cell phones would be invented, or just how useful they'd become for drug dealing.

How about not one of those clowns in either the excutive branch or congress gets paid until this is resolved.

Why no stories on how the ongoing massive debt and budget deficits will absolutely destroy ALL states, and our children's futures? That is a MUCH bigger story. Why the stress of relatively minor near-term problems? Sort of like hyping the miss-matched orchestra uniforms on the Titanic's band.

And remember - WA voters helped elect the guy at the top. Again. And the "sequester" was Obama's idea, as well as the increased taxes and spending.

Legalizing marijuana would save the US government $15 billion per year.  Obama could find $85 billion of waste in the US government budget in the White House couch cushions if he wanted to.  Unfortunately, he does not.  

This is like a store manager arguing with an employee on why knocking down the price of a product from $20 to $16 is a bad idea, considering I'm only going to pay $10 for it anyways

This is PROOF the federal government has way overstepped it's constitutional purpose.  If the feds stopped the extent of it's taxation so they can have their fingers in everything the states do, the states would be free to raise revenue to do what is needed in that state. Programs work so much better when they are run locally. 

Just think about it, if states took care of themselves the US congress could meet for a few months each year then go home.  Because they have their fingers in everything we are  close to 17 TRILLION IN DEBT AND go from crisis to crisis.  Isn't it time to stop this madness?

I just had a conversation with my kids about this this morning. They even understand that if you have $3, you can't buy a $5 item. 

It is called overspending DC... ever hear of it! ... us common folks do not / cannot spend billions more than we make you are no different... WAKE UP - and retake Addition and Subtraction over again since most of your elite school apparently skipped that part since you have mommy and daddy to bail you guys out!

The USA has expenses: $3.54 trillion. 
DC takes in from the taxpayers $2.54 trillion.   

7.2% of this or $216 billion is interest being paid to outsiders on the debt/deficit.  We have to pay down the deficit.  If interest rates go up, we will be in big trouble much more than the sequester. 

We clearly have a spending problem.   

Key word here is"could". Nothing that can't be changed later. Scared much?

So the Sequester calls for $1.2 Trillion in cuts over 10 years. We keep hearing the doom and gloom and the need for a balanced approach. Does the White House think the people have short term memories? They got $620 BILLION over the same period in tax increases effective January 1st. So what is Obama's definition of BALANCED APPROACH?

I’m looking at these numbers thinking…the Fed’s are way too deep in our business.  Let’s keep this money HERE instead of sending it to the Wasters in DC and we can decide how it’s best spent.  They just skim (a bunch) of the top of our tax money anyway to pay for overhead and wasting it elsewhere.  And let's take care of ourselves first before we start giving billions in F-16's and tanks to a government who doesn't like us; to two goverments who don't give a rats a** about the tens of thousands of lives lost or forever ruinded by wasted war; and to the F'in French who will not return Michael Maestro and wifie poo for trial.  Really?

Boo hoo cry me a river - we need to stop spending. Whether we like it or not we have created such a monster of government that the states and general population can't fathom how to function with all of the handouts. If these puny cutbacks bring the country to its knees then I think the US has become even more pathetic than I already think it is. And oh yeah, we spend more money deciding how we are going to cut money then the money we actually cut. 

These "cuts" are hilarious. They are essentially meaningless. They are't even "cuts!" They are just less automatic growth than there would be otherwise. These "local effects" are a bogus lie that the Obama administration is manufacturing. No one should lose their job since what the sequester is is less increase in spending than there was going to be, that means everything we're paying for now should stay in place, so if anyone loses their job it means Obama is taking it away as a political ploy and not really because there wasn't money for it.

The sky is falling, the sky is falling...... What horse manure.   Stand up and take credit  Mr. President this is your baby.  If a 2% cut in spending is going to bring us to our knees we are in deep trouble.

Did I miss where it said the Senators and Representatives were taking an across the board cut in compensation? I think a 10% cut for salary, health care, staff, and all their other benefits would be the least they could do!

This is 1) Complete BS, fabricated nonsense, and 2) no longer any big deal. 

Thing is, we're bound to collapse sooner or later. Nothing Human Beings can do will prevent that, and I for one believe it is Obama/Progressive strategy to do exactly that, collapse this country in order to push in what they want. You can't undo everything that built this Country without completely collapsing it's financial and social base. Obama hates America, that much is obvious, but it's both Republicans and Democrats that have done this, and the serious slide to tyranny began with Bush Jr. However, other than new legislation like NDAA, Patriot Act, the "new Gun Laws" and making it a Felony to protest (taking away Free Speech) anywhere near a Politician in DC, where such things would actually matter.... With the exception of that within the last 13 years or so, the groundwork was laid a long time ago starting with the Federal Reserve. 

None of this means anything anymore, it's just more hoopla fed to the American Public through Media/News and is nothing more than Government Propaganda. 

I don't believe any of those statistics.  This is a 2% across the board cut.  We are still spending 13b more this year than last year. These so called cuts are a fabrication and not the real deal.

Oh, I see. It's all the Republicans fault!! Yes, let's blame it all on Republicans! Great job, liberal media! You found who is really to blame! How about looking at Wall Street? They're setting us up for another great year. How about looking at the current administration, who thinks they can just make mandates when they don't get their way? My battle cry, "UNSEAT ALL INCUMBENTS!"  Partisanship is to blame, not just one party or the other.

Well as usual the doom and gloom hype continues so the politicians can all get their faces on the national television interviews which promotes their name in popularity. As they always do they will come up with an 11th hour band-aid fix for a broken leg. Why? It isn't because they care about you and I. It's because they only care about political victory and popularity. It strokes their egos.

The $85B "sequester" is a 2% decrease in the proposed 10% spending increase by the Gubmint.  That's a total of 8% in increased spending.  How is this a cut, folks?

$85 billion.   the DEFICIT pre annum is over 1 TRILLION.  85,000,000,000 cut vs the 1,000,000,000,000 being spent with money conjured up out of thin air each year.  Good start but its only 8%  or less of the cuts that must take place to bring .gov spending in line with the economy's ability to fund it (at current taxation levels) There is  a LONG LONG way to go, and a lot of pain will be taken during the adjustment.  If we do it, however, a lot of the welfare spending that folk wail about cutting will not be needed since the runaway inflation we (enabled via unelected private banker Ben Bernanke) are running will not steal people's stored wealth.  Healthcare, education, food, etc will all have true price stability, and you can predict and properly save for your future needs.

I don't see any cuts to financial and healthcare assistance programs for illegals. Did I miss something? Please tell me that we aren't cutting education to US citizens while we send illegals to college.

You should look at Floridas cuts... Yes cut the hell out of defense and leave the children and education alone.

Keep cutting! That's just a start!

Who cares.  85 Billion will run the government for less than one day.  

1. Cutting military spending?  GOOD!  The military industrial complex needs to be reduced heavily.....

2. 440 fewer low-income students in Washington would receive aid to help them finance the costs of college?  GOOD!  They can apply for a loan like every other low or high income student has had to do for decades..

3.  Cutting education?  Who cares!  No matter how much money you put into it, thats always going to be a black hole.  Parents need to step up and start forcing their kids to take education serious.  Thats not the tax payers job, nor is this daycare folks.  GROW UP>>>>.

4.  Reducing child care?  GOOD!  I'm done with welfare.....

5.  Losing grants to reduce substance abuse?  Really?  Washington just voted to actually increase substance abuse.  Legalizing pot hello?  

I can take every single item on the list and cut it down to a GOOD!  Get rid of it Stance!