Sarah Palin: Feds stockpiling bullets to use against us
Sarah Palin says America will eventually default on its debt and claims that the federal government is stockpiling bullets in case of civil unrest to prepare.
If we are going to wet our proverbial pants over 0.3% in annual spending cuts when were running up trillion dollar annual deficits, then were done. Put a fork in us. Were finished. Were going to default eventually and thats why the feds are stockpiling bullets in case of civil unrest, Palin wrote in a Facebook message Tuesday.
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The former GOP governor of Alaska was referring to the sequester, the automatic $1.2 trillion cuts in federal funding that take effect Friday unless lawmakers reach a deal.
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D.C.: Cut the Drama. Do Your Job. Americans are sick and tired of yet another ginned-up crisis. D.C. needs to grow up, get to work, and live within its means, wrote Palin, the GOPs 2008 vice presidential running mate of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.).
She continued: The real economic Armageddon looming before us is our runaway debt, not the sequester, which the President advocated for and signed into law and is now running around denouncing because he never had any genuine intention of reining in his reckless spending.
Palin wrote that she wants lawmakers to stop the hysterics.
If we ARE serious about putting our fiscal house in order, then lets stop the hysterics, tighten our belts, and take our medicine.
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