Fear is the only thing LB has to offer

"...let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is...fear itself — nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."
FDR's first inaugural address

We have gone from that kind of presidential reassurance to "the only thing to do is instill fear":
Planes will crash
Children will starve
Police officers are all going to be laid off
Fire fighters too
Teachers too
Border patrol officers too

Everything, if you believe the fear mongers, will shut down due to a 2.3% reduction in the rate of growth.  The government will still spend well over 3 TRILLION dollars.  With that kind of money, it would seem to me that we ought to be able to keep the lights on somewhere in government.

Then there are the predictions that actually came true due to government incompetence:
Aircraft carriers will not sail
Jails will be emptied

Sequestration has been in the offing for more than a year.  What has LB done to avert the "crisis?"  He did nothing before embarking on a doom and gloom tour predicting the sky will in fact fall on March 1st.  Before that?  NOTHING.  In fact, during the campaign, LB boldly stated the sequester "would not happen."  So on March 1st we'll have LB's first broken promise of the 2012 campaign.

But not to worry.  LB will be on the case Fri.  That's the day after the sequester takes place.  That is all you really need to know about this issue.  LB is on the case a day late and 6 TRILLION dollars short.  It's the perfect metaphor for this boob? 

Whatever pain is actually felt tomorrow will be manufactured or due to incompetent government managers.  The tv will be filled hapless LB dolts incapable of functioning without a government wake up call on the LB phone, a Headstart breakfast for their offspring, food stamps to cover lunch and dinner, a free bus ride from their section 8 housing to the welfare office, and government sleeping pill at night after the 50 inch flat screen tv is turned off.

All of this over a 2.3% cut in the rate of growth.  Rudy Guliani compared this to guy a making $100,000 thinking he was going to get a 10% raise but only gets a 7% raise.  So he goes and tells the boss that with a 7% raise his family will starve and he'll have to take his kids out school.  Most bosses in America would be tempted to fire the ungrateful bastard.  But for some reason when we translate that story to the government, we worry that an already bloated government can't get by without a small reduction in the rate of growth. 

Another guy put it this way.  Your son gets a $10 allowance.  He comes to you and asks for a $20 allowance.  You say no, but I'll give you $15.  Your ingrate son then goes around telling his friends that the old man cut his allowance by $5.

Today, the only things we have to fear is an ammunition shortage and an incompetent BS artist in the White House.