Anyone know if this budget thing is going to effect the NFA processing times?
Dammit I didn’t even think of that…This thing is already startin to really pisss me off.
It almost certainly will. Many ATF agents are being served the 30 day notice of furlough. One day every two weeks for the rest of the fiscal year. I don’t know why the NFA examiners would be exempt.
Glad my last 3 stamps are almost done… One anyday now, the other two in the next 2 months…
When would this take effect? I have a few forms pending that will be done in the next few months and I was wondering if this would effect them.
Obviously if your states examiner has furlough days, itll put them behind work wise, so it’ll affect it, but not a huge change from the already crazy 6-8 month backlog…
Got my letter last week, all DOJ is in the same boat.
A real leader would target areas the will hurt the least. Obama is trying to manipulate people by inflicting as much pain as possible. Here are a couple of facts to set the record straight:
- The actual cuts in fiscal year 2013 are only $44 billion, according to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). The rest don’t even take place until 2014 or later. Whether you use $44 billion or $85 billion we’re talking about 1 or 2 percent of total government spending.
- Spending is Still Going Up! Even with the sequester, the federal government is expected to spend more this year than it did last year. The government spent $3.5 trillion in 2012 and i expected to spend $3.6 trillion in 2013.
Also, don’t forget the events that brought things to this point.
- Obama and Congress can’t agree on spending cuts necessary to get Congressional approval to raise the debt limit.
- Obama proposed sequestration as a method of raising the debt limit now and doing the cutting later on. A super committee would agree on the cuts or they would automatically happen.
- The super committee couldn’t agree on what to cut.
- Obama, not missing an opportunity to raise taxes, decides that we need a “balanced approach” that includes increasing taxes again. Note that tax increases were never ever considered at the time the debt limit was raised. There’s no way Republicans would have agreed to raise the debt limit in exchange for raising taxes later. They obviously would have just raised the debt limit.
So the sequestration was Obama’s idea and raising taxes instead of cutting is his idea too. Pretty clear on who’s to blame here.
To our Federal Employee friends: Chin-up, and stick it out. I went through this about 2yrs ago as I am also a public servant. It sucks, but the people we serve have had it much worse during this economy. I wish Obama would step up and lead instead of using the pawns for political power. He could care less about people, he only cares about his political power.
That applies to EVERY pol inside the Beltway. . . Effin elitists . . . . . .
Remember the rules, "never let a crisis go to waste ". He wants pain, he wants chaos he wants disorder. I fully believe he wants a collapse. The Devil thrives on chaos.
While I’ll agree that it applies to most, there are actually some true patriots there. It’s not really right to tarnish their characters with the likes of Obama.
Unfortunately, there are far more politicians who are there to acquire power than defend freedom. This is simply because the American people as a whole want others to take care of them more than they want their freedom. Despite this, it’s our job to defend freedom no matter how bad it gets.
The funny thing about this whole budget debate thing is that one side acts as if we actually have a choice as to whether or not spending actually gets cut (real cuts, not the fake reductions in increases they try to pass off as cuts). $0.46 of every dollar spent by the federal government is borrowed. In the words of Herbert Stein “If something can’t go on forever, it won’t.” Eventually, those loaning the feds money will figure out their odds of getting paid back are not 100%. When the feds lose the ability to borrow, the cuts will happen. It’s then that the real poo will hit the fan.
The furlough will effect NFA process times, and anything else the government does. Employees will receive a 30 day notice before being placed on furlough, so there will be at least another month before work will slow down due to the this. The furlough is 22 days, which must be taken before 30 September, so that’s about a month delay per worker.
Calculate in furlough, add time for Sandy Hook buying frenzy, but subtract 9 extra examiners… It will probably add 3 weeks. At least that us what I’m trolling myself.
I jokingly told a friend of mine who is an AUSA to start drafting NFA trusts for $100 a pop on his furlough day!
I think the only positive thing to come put of this is that it should put gun control on the back burner even more so now.
It should, but I bet it won’t… They take care of what they want, not what they should.
The only job in the US where you can blue off your work, and still not be fired.
Unfortunately I think this is right where Obama wants the country to be.
This is one reason why I am glad I am in Korea for the next two years. I dropped my Trust and form 1 in the check the week before I left and one would hope that it makes it back to the wife back in the states before I get back. Now I just hope the ammo people can gets some stuff back on the shelf before midtour.