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| Children Need to Fly, Too; End Sequestration |
| By atlantadailyworld.com - Marian Wright Edelman |
| Published: 05/10/2013 |
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Anyone despairing that Congress can’t get anything done should note last week’s swift vote to get furloughed air traffic controllers back to work. Congress can move very quickly and efficiently when it wants to and when its own comfort and that of constituents well-off enough to fly was affected. Reduced unemployment benefits, children dropped suddenly from Head Start programs, poor mothers and babies losing food supplements, teacher layoffs, and cancelled meal deliveries for seniors didn’t move them—but airport delays as members headed out of town for their April recess were apparently unacceptable. Read More. |
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It was those on the side of democracy without Constitutional restraint and those who believe in the common good over common law that had leadership that was willing to do sequestration in the first place, The blame game starves children. The progressives have incrementally increased government on both sides of the aisle for a long time now, Both sides need replacing with some individuals that cave on both sides. Pay past debts and sequestration would not have even been in the political picture today,