The $500-billion-cut to military spending that is supposed to start in January won’t happen, Colorado’s Democratic U.S. Sen. Mark Udall said on Friday.
Asked point-blank sequestration could become a reality, and whether tens of thousands of Colorado Springs jobs could be lost, Udall said simply, “No.”
Udall continued, “I just know, because calm heads are going to prevail. We’ll come up with a way to hopefully, in a short term way, postpone sequestration til we put a grand bargain in place.
“I want to be clear — that doesn’t mean we’re not going to go right to the edge of the fiscal cliff and look over it,” Udall said. “We may be placing a few pitons or a few anchors and preparing the ropes to rappel off the cliff, but we’re going to have a safeguard. We’re going to have a safety system as we come off that cliff.
“That’s my prediction. That’s what I’m working to accomplish. And that’s job one, two, three, four, five when we get back to Washington.”
Don’t worry, be happy… and keep printing more money… what could possibly go wrong?
Udall better start kissing Obama’s back side.
Military spending has been increasing for the last 10+ years. And like it or not, sooner or later it must wind back down. Will that cost jobs here? Yep. So who’s fault is it that the Springs has failed to diversify it’s economy?
Our government is against us.. we are on our own..
Let the economy drop out in Colorado Springs. Then we can pay for all of those tax increases people just voted for since we are rich now.
I predict that the Dems will proposal a plan that they know the Repubs will reject, and when they do, the Repubs will get the blame once again. This will ensure that the Dems remain in office and open the way for more. It is about getting into and staying in office, not what is best for the country.
Of course they’ll kick the can down the road. That’s what they always do.
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