Funding for education in New Jersey would be slashed by nearly $30 million and drastic cuts made to health care programs and environmental protection should Congress fail to halt $85 billion in "sequestration" spending cuts scheduled to take hold March 1, the White House said Sunday.
The federal government would save $75 million by furloughing 11,000 civilian military contractors, and another $59 million by cutting funding to military bases.
The cuts would include:
- Approximately $11.7 million in funding for primary and secondary education.
- About $17 million in funds for about 210 teachers, aides, and staff who help children with disabilities.
- Head Start and Early Head Start services would be eliminated for approximately 1,300 children.
- New Jersey would lose about $4,891,000 in environmental funding, and $472,000 in grants for fish and wildlife protection.
- Approximately 11,000 civilian Department of Defense employees would be furloughed.
- Army base operation funding would be cut by about $52 million in New Jersey. Funding for Air Force operations in New Jersey would be cut by about $7 million.
- New Jersey will lose about $336,000 in Justice Assistance Grants.
- Up to 600 disadvantaged and vulnerable children could lose access to child care.
- Around 3,930 fewer children will receive vaccines.
- New Jersey will lose approximately $840,000 in funds to help upgrade its ability to respond to public health threats including infectious diseases, natural disasters, and biological, chemical, nuclear, and radiological events. New Jersey will lose about $2,330,000 in grants to help prevent and treat substance abuse, resulting in around 3100 fewer admissions to substance abuse programs. And the New Jersey State Department of Health and Senior Services will lose about $752,000 resulting in around 18,800 fewer HIV tests.
- New Jersey could lose up to $187,000 in funds that provide services to victims of domestic violence, resulting in up to 700 fewer victims being served.
- Nutrition Assistance for Seniors: New Jersey would lose approximately $488,000 in funds that provide meals for seniors.
The total federal spending cuts would be about $1.2 trillion over the next nine years. Republicans have accused the president of using the impending cuts for political gain.
President Obama's plan asks for increased tax revenues to offset some of the trillion-dollar cuts.
This is fearmongering at it's finest. This is the "turning off the Little League lights" syndrome.
Wow $1.2 T cuts over 9 years. In 9 years the debt will GROW to $25T from $16.6T today according to the CBO. Without Sequester, it will grow to $26.2T. Either way, we are screwed. NJ has a budget problem for this year of about $3 billion. Choices are raise taxes or cut spending. When can we vote on eliminating pensions and healthcare increases for the 1% of government workers at the expense of the rest of us.
"This is fear inferring at its best" "Stop giving money away to other countries" "Eliminate pensions and (free) healthcare to all state workers and teachers" They gotta stop the spending! Bottom line it's the people we vote into office at the federal and state level, if candidates run close to working to stopping the endless spending and sitting the fat then vote for them. We as country need to stop voting for people they think are. "Hip and popular" rather accountable and responsible .
http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/30-stupid-things-the-governemnt-is-spending-money-on
We need to work out of the box to stop the salary and pension bleeding.
Please just post the field you work in so we can all see where a private worker can earn double what a governmnent worker does (for the same work) and there are open jobs by the thousands.
I'm happy to say that I didn't vote for him. Where were all these people on Nov 6th? NJ doesn't have to be a blue state. The first comment sums it up. It's only fear mongering.
This would merely decrease the "rate" of increase in spending. I think there are many places from which to cut the federal budget. Also the fear mongering over essential services is theater as police fire and education are largely municipal and state functions that are not part of the so called sequester. My god, maybe we won't have gas for the drones to go kill a 179 more innocent children. The world is starting to reject the US dollar as the reserve currency. When that happens the velocity of US dollars will increase as foreign central banks dump the dollar. Great increases in inflation will occur, insidiously decreasing our standard of living. Ultimately, someday the bond holders will loose faith and not buy our debt. Then, the unfortunate misguided progressive era experiment that was the US Federal Reserve, fiat currency, fractional reserve banking and dissolution of the gold backed dollar standard will necrose under its own weight like a malignant cancer. Hopefully after the incredible pain and suffering that such a reset will entail is over, maybe a new commodity backed monetary standard will emerge and our children can once again benefit from prosperity that blessed the US in the late 19th century.