Dear Mr. Speaker:
Enclosed please find the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Report to the Congress on the sequestration for fiscal year (FY) 2013 required by section 251A of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act, as amended (the “Joint Committee sequestration”). This report provides calculations of the amounts and percentages by which various budgetary resources are required to be reduced, and a listing of the reductions required for each non-exempt budget account…
– Jeffrey D. Zients, Deputy Director for Management, Office of Management and Budget.
Cover letter to House Speaker John Boehner accompanying the OMB’s sequestration report.
The indiscriminate, across-the-board spending cuts to the Defense Department and domestic programs were supposed to be so odious and harebrained that, of course, the president and Congress would agree on a more reasonable path to deficit reduction.
In this, the parties obviously underestimated just how dysfunctional Washington is.
– Frank James, “Power Centers” blog post at npr.org, March 01, 2013.
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Deer in the Road Series 1, #s 1, 3, 6, 7, 10, c. 2009
Ilford HP5
For Zeints’ cover letter and full OMB report click here.
Nice photos. This subject suits Ilford.
Thanks, mostlymonochrome. I do like the Ilford films; they can pick up some tones & textures that other films sometimes miss.
The language of indirection. My favorite.
“Dead on arrival,” perhaps? ” “Too little, too late”?
Or this one off the cuff; “May a plague of bones share your table each morning.”
The photos: they instantly reminded me of Matthew Brady’s Civil War/Gettysburg work.
Oooo, “dead on arrival” — that’s good. Hadn’t thought of it that way. (I was coming at it from the deer’s — i.e., “our” — point of view.) It’s astonishing, this ridiculous, petulant, clueless mob. But then every one of them was elected, so maybe *we’re* the ridiculous, petulant, clueless mob,,,
In any case, I don’t think they’d realize the plague of bones was their own doing.
But thanks for the very generous compliment! :-)
Those are some chilling pictures.
I hope in the future the government will learn that there is nothing they can plan that will be “too bad to happen.” At least the common people have learned that.
Yeah, but whatever we common people learn, they’re too busy puffing their chests and pointing fingers to listen to us. What a mess.