Congratulations, House Republicans!

@cicerone imposter,

From Huff Post.

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Jason Chaffetz Embassy Cuts
Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) voted to cut back on funds for embassy security. (AP Photo/J. Scott)
Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) acknowledged on Wednesday that House Republicans had consciously voted to reduce the funds allocated to the State Department for embassy security since winning the majority in 2010.

On Wednesday morning, CNN anchor Soledad O'Brien asked the Utah Republican if he had "voted to cut the funding for embassy security."

"Absolutely," Chaffetz said. "Look we have to make priorities and choices in this country. We have…15,000 contractors in Iraq. We have more than 6,000 contractors, a private army there, for President Obama, in Baghdad. And we’re talking about can we get two dozen or so people into Libya to help protect our forces. When you’re in tough economic times, you have to make difficult choices. You have to prioritize things.”

For the past two years, House Republicans have continued to deprioritize the security forces protecting State Department personnel around the world. In fiscal year 2011, lawmakers shaved $128 million off of the administration's request for embassy security funding. House Republicans drained off even more funds in fiscal year 2012 -- cutting back on the department's request by $331 million.

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@Baldimo,

Most departments have Congressional mandates on what can be spent where. If you would bother to read the legislation there is a very specific limit set for funds that State can use for security. To use more would violate the law.

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@Baldimo,

Bullshit. They're dead. Dead because GWB couldn't figure out the Embassy in Baghdad was unsafe for innocent American lives. Not just once. But twice. In one year. What? 12 dead. 12. That's twelve. You know 10 plus 2. Three times the Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi 4. Explain that.

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@Baldimo,

A security budget is a security budget, allocations are called allocations because they are allocated. Seriously?

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@bobsal u1553115,

I'll say it again. Why didn't they prioritize security personal between locations they control? How many security personal are there in other locations? Could they have not moved personal from a more stable and secure location to Benghazi since there were warnings about possible attacks on that area. To top it off it was the anniversary of 9-11. You would think that we would naturally increase security at over seas locations that were in unstable counties. Ones that had recently had a change in management. We all know how stable new govt's are.

You were in the military Bob? Yet you question an attack on a location that was pretty much in the middle of a war zone?

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@Baldimo,

Hindsite is always 20/20. No surprise there.

Okay, blindmo, where should they concentrate their next security location?

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You were in the military Bob? Yet you question an attack on a location that was pretty much in the middle of a war zone?

They do not trust soldiers that hand out towels in the Officers Club with that kind of information.

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@coldjoint,

And if you get exposed as a racist, shout, "Reverse racism!" and post little balls of **** like this:

http://eaglerising.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/liberal-progressives-shout-racism-300x226.jpg

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Senate Republicans Support Energy Efficiency Bill, ....But Hold It 'Hostage' Anyway
The bill is about as non-controversial as you get in Washington. It includes incentives, opportunities, and funding to improve energy efficiency in commercial buildings, houses, and appliances, but no mandatory standards. Still, the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy has estimated it will spur the creation of 190,000 jobs, save the country $16.2 billion a year on energy bills by 2030, and reduce planet-warming greenhouse gases.

The bill has broad support. The American Chemistry Council, the American Gas Association, and the Earth Day Network all signed a letter supporting it last month.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/07/senate-energy-efficiency_n_5284200.html?utm_hp_ref=politics

DAMMIT, Congress.

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Senate Republicans Support Energy Efficiency Bill, ....But Hold It 'Hostage' Anyway
The bill is about as non-controversial as you get in Washington. It includes incentives, opportunities, and funding to improve energy efficiency in commercial buildings, houses, and appliances, but no mandatory standards. Still, the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy has estimated it will spur the creation of 190,000 jobs, save the country $16.2 billion a year on energy bills by 2030, and reduce planet-warming greenhouse gases.

The bill has broad support. The American Chemistry Council, the American Gas Association, and the Earth Day Network all signed a letter supporting it last month.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/07/senate-energy-efficiency_n_5284200.html?utm_hp_ref=politics

DAMMIT, Congress.

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@bobsal u1553115,

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And if you get exposed as a racist,

The only thing have exposed is your narrow minded view of the countries problems and the fact that Obamas policies aren't working.

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Who Owns One-Third of American Land -- And How It's Holding Us Back

Here is a policy that kills jobs and makes us dependent on people who hate us.

http://blog.heritage.org/wp-content/uploads/oilprod_600px-522x1024.jpg

Obama refuses to help the economy the easiest way he can. Energy is jobs. He is blocking leases on federal land.

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In fact, true to form, the federal government is getting in the way of domestic energy and American jobs.

“Inaccessibility and unnecessary regulations inhibit economic growth in various parts of the country,” says Heritage expert Nicolas Loris, the Herbert and Joyce Morgan Fellow. He points to a recent study showing that “opening up offshore areas for drilling in the Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf — just one region where offshore drilling is possible but not permitted — would create 280,000 jobs in that region alone.”

http://blog.heritage.org/2014/05/08/federal-government-holding-back-oil-production-federal-lands/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

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More Businesses Shutting Down than Starting Up

The Obama recovery?

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A new Brookings Institution report indicates that businesses are shuttering their doors more quickly than new ones are popping up.

From the Washington Post:

The American economy is less entrepreneurial now than at any point in the last three decades. That's the conclusion of a new study out from the Brookings Institution, which looks at the rates of new business creation and destruction since 1978.

Not only that, but during the most recent three years of the study -- 2009, 2010 and 2011 -- businesses were collapsing faster than they were being formed, a first. Overall, new businesses creation (measured as the share of all businesses less than one year old) declined by about half from 1978 to 2011.

This descent has a broad scope; no group is immune. Brookings notes that “the national decline in business dynamism has been a widely shared experience.” It “hasn’t been isolated to particular industrial sectors and firm sizes” and “reach[es] all fifty states and all but a few metropolitan areas.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/more-businesses-shutting-down-starting_791127.html#.U2t2fEi_48E.twitter

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@coldjoint,

Your brain is limited in viewing only one direction; the wrong one!

The GOP has voted against every job creating legislation.

It's not about Obama; it's about the stupid GOP members of congress who play politics over the best interest of this country.

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GOP’s First 200 Days: No Jobs Bills

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Senate Republicans Block Another Jobs Bill, Face Backlash From American Public

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GOP Senator: I Voted Against Equal Pay For Women Because We Have Enough Laws

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Republicans block Senate bill to boost veterans' benefits
A bill to increase spending for veterans' services failed to move forward in the Senate, despite support from 54 Democrats and two Republicans.
By Alan Fram, Associated Press / February 27, 2014

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@cicerone imposter,

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The GOP has voted against every job creating legislation.

First, what do the last two have to do with jobs? Second you can provide a source for "another Jobs Bill" so why, and when, they opposed it can be discussed.

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@coldjoint,

They have to do with jobs; you will never understand why.

1. When veterans get the benefits they've earned by fighting in our wars, they spend that money to help our economy. Helping our economy means more jobs.
70% of our economy is based on consumer spending.
2. Women's pay is directly related to jobs. Some simple concept you'll never understand or appreciate. If they earn what they're supposed to, they'll spend more in our economy. That creates more jobs.

These are simple concepts of supply and demand; Econ 101.

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@cicerone imposter,

That is not a source.

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@cicerone imposter,

Seems to me to be a 2 way street. Best interests of the country? That is a matter of opinion. Have a read through of this article:

http://blogs.rgj.com/factchecker/2013/10/12/has-the-u-s-house-passed-zero-bills-in-past-3-years/

If you guys cared about jobs, you would let up on the regulations that have been passed. I read the other day, that our regulations market is the worlds 10th largest economy. So just the amount of regulations we make people pay to create jobs, is larger than most countries entire economy. You don't think this is having an effect on job creation? You guys want jobs created with both hands tied behind people's backs and one foot nailed to the floor.

Regulation killing our economy:

http://news.investors.com/042914-698787-regulatory-economy-booms-under-president-obama.htm

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@Baldimo,

Pretty much a war zone. Are you shitting me? What with 2 real war zones going? And the US was a much likelier target rich environment than Libya?

Claim to be a vet? I am a vet and I don't think much those who 'claim' to be but aren't. I only think less of those who never served and have the balls given by anonymity from a forum to challenge me, a vet. A little respect is due. I enlisted, why didn't you?

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@coldjoint,

[img]They do not trust soldiers that hand out towels in the Officers Club with that kind of information.[/img]

Drinking again, asshole?

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