>>>*This appears to this writer to be the second time our administration has taken steps to actually create as much pain and disruption as possible, the last time being due to the "sequester" situation.

Again we see the same situation, in what appears to be nothing more than an attempt to assign blame to the other side of the political world.

The amount of capital reduction that time was a pittance, yet far reaching effects were emplaced that should not have been, and had the effect of actually COSTING government tax revenue by harming day to day private business operations?

Perhaps I am overly simplistic, but my idea of an elected official is one who is there to REPRESENT all of us, not CONTROL all of us?

It seems that my idea of what our Nation should be like is naive. I do still have HOPE that our leaders will do the right thing and SERVE our interests, but I also concede that my hope is fading....*EB