Sequestration Budget Cuts: Which WI Counties Have the Most Federal Employees?
More than 180 federal employees who work in Waukesha County could potentially be affected by sequester, which is slated to start Friday.
Unless Congress reaches a last-minute agreement on the sequester by Friday, the huge budget cuts slated to kick in have the potential to affect more than 185 federal employees working in Waukesha County.
Barring any kind of deal, the Obama administration will have to impose $85 billion in across-the-board spending cuts to military and domestic programs on Friday, according to The New York Times. Those cuts would be the start of $1 trillion in cuts over the next decade.
The numbers in the graph above show the number of federal employees in Wisconsin by county in 2012, according to the latest figures from Eye on Washington, a DC-based lobbying firm that tracks federal employment.
It compiles the data from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management and the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.
While much has been written on how the current sequestration battle in Washington could affect the national economy, these numbers are meant to give readers a sense of the sequestration at the local level.
Of the 185 federal employees in Waukesha County, 77 work for theU.S. Department of the Treasury and 25 are employed by the Social Security Administration.
On Sunday, the Obama administration released a report that showed Wisconsin could see more than $27 million in federal cuts if the sequester takes effect. And a report released this week by the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators said the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee could lose about $40,000 in federal work study grants.
No one knows for certain what the sequestration cuts will mean exactly. Even if the federal cuts are enacted, the full effects would not be felt immediately. The government is required to alert impacted agencies of what cuts are to be made and what workers are to be furloughed.
It should be noted, however, that even the suggestion of cuts and the notification process itself could be felt in some community economies.
Uncertainty for federal workers means they are likely to tighten their belts until they see what the cuts look like — and how long they last. It means those workers will likely spend less money at local shops and restaurants. In some communities there may be only a handful of federal workers and the impacts may be small.
But, as these figures show, in other counties federal employees number in the thousands and in those places the sequestration could become a more significant pain, particularly if it drags on for weeks or months.
Craig
1:08 pm on Thursday, February 28, 2013
These "cuts" are miniscule.
They aren't actually cuts, but reductions to increases in spending.
How miniscule are they you may ask?
It equates to the average American family cutting $2.50 from their annual spending.
Devastating I know....
Mr Lundt
2:52 pm on Thursday, February 28, 2013
In reality Craig it is like getting a few hundred dollars off of a $5000 raise.
Craig
4:16 pm on Thursday, February 28, 2013
Yes sir. I like your comparison much better.
John Wilson
12:54 pm on Friday, March 1, 2013
Mr. Lundt -
In reality Craig is getting far too many Meds, and way too little oxygen to his brain to be successful at articulating anything...
Craig
2:40 pm on Friday, March 1, 2013
Mr Lundt: Wilson is a self proclaimed pot smoker on Wednesdays and weekends. He claims to have friends in law enforcement who supply him with his devil lettuce. He also claims to be a member of MENSA, which is possible. After years of hitting the bong I think he would no longer qualify. I am guessing his age is equal to his IQ.
Wilson: You are a race baiting SOB, not worthy of the oxygen you breathe.
Gofaq Uurslf
6:21 pm on Thursday, February 28, 2013
Dane and Milwaukee counties have more than enough. Go figure.
Steve ®
7:38 pm on Thursday, February 28, 2013
Barrett needs a $100 million trolley,nope can't cut that. Instead lets let criminal out of jail so the cuts really hurt. Obama is out of control. Saddam and Castro did the same thing......
John Wilson
9:16 am on Friday, March 1, 2013
Steve ® -
You need not worry, Barrett will not let the Republicans out of jail; he has the "other" section of the budget to keep these Troglodytes behind bars. Further, the half-way house you live in is protected, also by the "other" section of the budget.
Steve ®
9:38 am on Friday, March 1, 2013
I love waking up to personal attacks from someone that can not win on ideas.
Are you sad that John Doe was closed? It must be why you're in a pissy mood this beautiful morning.
Craig
9:52 am on Friday, March 1, 2013
John Wilson is a pot head. (only on Wednesdays and Saturdays)
Steve ®
10:54 pm on Thursday, February 28, 2013
The budget cuts this fiscal year are mealy $40 billion not $85. Why the media including Mark can't get this right is questionable.
Nuitari
7:34 am on Friday, March 1, 2013
The 85 has been tossed around in my sources. It doesn't matter what the number, it's piss in a bucket.
Luke
7:46 am on Friday, March 1, 2013
Speaking of numbers being tossed around.......
http://youtu.be/eEVr9sTwTwY
Steve ®
9:42 am on Friday, March 1, 2013
Best I have seen it explained:
According to the CBO, the sequester will force the government to cut around $40 Billion in outlays between Friday and September 30th.
Think of it this way. You have a credit card with a $10,000 limit. You currently have a $5,000 balance on the card. On Friday, the credit card company cancels your card and demands immediate payment. You adjust your budget to pay off the $5,000 balance. To the media, however, the credit card company has just cut your budget by $10,000, since that was the amount you had been authorized to spend.
So, on Friday, the government has to trim around $40 billion over the next seven months. This represents just over 1% of total federal spending. Unfortunately, the bias against cutting federal spending is such that the media can't even be honest about that.
John Wilson
10:40 am on Friday, March 1, 2013
Steve ® -
Comparing a credit card to the economy to the United States economy is simply a monumental oversimplification and a false equivalency…
Your loss of a credit card only affects YOU.
The loss of $85B to the economy affects almost EVERYONE; in addition, you have to carry those effects out for 10-years, at an additional $85B per year.
I have never seen any economy grow and flourish without massive consumer, government, business and Wall Street spending, research and production; perhaps this is the new Republican Economics.
Finally, for those of you demanding a return to 2008 spending levels, please consider:
POPULATION OF THE USA:
2008 = 305M
2013 = 316M and growing daily
Steve ®
10:51 am on Friday, March 1, 2013
I does effect me, in a positive way. We are running somewhere around 101% debt to GDP. For an economy to grow we need to get down from that, way down. Population has increased but revenues have not kept up with spending. Huge deficits and increasing debt is not a good thing, don't try to sell it as it is.
You still didn't refute that this fiscal year we are cutting $40 billion, not $85 billion.
Craig
11:06 am on Friday, March 1, 2013
The population increase is a direct match to the Quest Card increase.
So many Liberals, so few brains.
Those on the dole are those who are multiplying, this is totally unsustainable.
John Wilson
1:34 pm on Friday, March 1, 2013
Steve ® -
I do not really know where you are pulling your numbers from; candidly, I would probably not want to know, as I am sure your head is there too.
“I does effect me, in a positive way. We are running somewhere around 101% debt to GDP.”
ONE: “It does effect me,” should be It does affect me,
TWO: Current % of Government spending to GDP is 40%
I do not know what you are drinking, shooting, smoking or whatever current psychological condition(s) you are presenting, however, you are in very dire straits.
The $40B or 85B needs no refutation, as they will be backtracked to September 2012.
http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/us_20th_century_chart.html
The Anti-Alinsky
4:42 pm on Saturday, March 2, 2013
John (if that is your real name), you fired up the bong a day early.
You wrote: "TWO: Current % of GOVERNMENT SPENDING to GDP is 40%"
Steve said: " We are running somewhere around 101% DEBT to GDP."
(emphasis added)
I didn't think I had to explain this to a "former Mensa", but SPENDING is what the government pays out, typically reported on an annual basis. DEBT is an accumulation of budget deficits (when the government spend more than we take in on an annual basis)
40% of annual spending is Government related.
GDP is at 101% (actually closer to 103% now).
Both numbers are very alarming!!!
John Wilson
10:57 pm on Saturday, March 2, 2013
The Anti-Alinsky –
The “Total Government Debt as a Percent of GDP” is currently at around 127%.
http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/total_debt_chart
I am not overly concerned with that figure, as that is a long-range opportunity, and no matter what we do today, that figure is not going to change for years. That is a long-term issue.
I am far more concerned with the JOBS situation NOW! We need to get people to work, as that helps us massively in the short term, and will drive EVERYTHING! The deficit is and will be with us for many years to come.
JOBS will help to alleviate that far more than all the “cutting”, “crying” and “obstructionism” that our bought-and-paid-for-Congress has been doing for the last 2+ years.
As usual, they are focusing on the wrong issue...
John Wilson
11:24 pm on Saturday, March 2, 2013
The Anti-Alinsky –
Just so you don’t eat your gun in the near future…
“Viewed as a percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) government debt shows a different aspect. At 56 percent of GDP in 1985, debt decreased as a percent of GDP until the mid 1990s when it peaked at 81.4 percent of GDP in 1996. Then a steady decline in debt as a percent of GDP set in for the rest of the 1990s, declining to 71.6 percent of GDP in 2000. But debt resumed a climb in the 2000s reaching 81 percent of GDP at the peak of the business cycle in 2007."
"In the Crash of 2008 government debt increased sharply to bail out the banks and to provide "stimulus" to the economy. Debt reached 104 percent of GDP in 2009. But debt is expected to plateau at about 122 percent of GDP in the next few years.”
http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/recent_debt#gross_vs_net
Steve ®
1:45 am on Sunday, March 3, 2013
No jobs = Obama
Debt to GDP =Obama
Food stamp increase = Obama
Deficit increase = Obama
Socialism=Obama
Obama =John
The Anti-Alinsky
9:49 am on Sunday, March 3, 2013
John (if that is your real name), you are one odd duck. First you cite a non-governmental site that out does the number Steve provided, but then draw a different conclusion. To top it off your citations don’t make sense:
“The “Total Government Debt as a Percent of GDP” is currently at around 127%.”
“But debt is expected to plateau at about 122 percent of GDP in the next few years.”
We currently pay $220 Billion in interest payments every year. What happens to that number when interests rates go up? And it will only get worse if Moody’s downgrades us again.
There is absolutely no argument about getting people back to work. Conservatives have been saying that for YEARS!!! But there are two things that are preventing that.
1) The government just taxed many of the largest job producers, which means they have that much less money to hire new workers.
2)Why should someone go out and work when the government gives them everything they need? Obama-housing, Obama-bucks for food, Obama-phones to call their friends, Obama-care to pay the doctor to put a band-aid on their boo-boo.
Debt is a HUGE problem. More importantly, the cause is an even bigger problem. While the debt we have stays with us until we pay it off, we can slow the annual deficits and keep the debt as low as possible. All it takes is a little dedication and discipline.
John Wilson
5:38 pm on Sunday, March 3, 2013
The Anti-Alinsky –
I am so proud of you; you have succeeded in memorizing ALL of the TP/GOP “Talking Points.”
Debt is only a “HUGE” problem for YOU and your cabal; JOBS are where I am focused.
The pennies taken from billionaires and millionaires, you call “job producers” is laughable, and utterly meaningless...
YOU and your TP cohorts could do me and the Patch a huge flavor favor and give us all the benefit of your vast economic knowledge when you make a reference to Debt or Deficit, as you use them interchangeably and very loosely.
Define what you mean by Debt in the context of government.
For example:
“National Debt: Strictly speaking, the national debt is the total of federal, state, and local debt.”
“Gross Federal Debt: That’s the gross amount of debt issued by the US Treasury. “Debt held by the public” and “debt held by federal government accounts”
“The gross debt of the general government is composed of three items: debt held by the Federal Reserve System and therefore monetized, debt owed to government agencies (e.g., Social Security), and debt held by the public, including foreign governments.”
IF you folks are going to play the master illusionist, let us find some common ground.
Precision is a wonderful thing… most of the time I think that logic is a diversion for you.
http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/recent_debt#gross_vs_net
Mr Lundt
3:41 am on Friday, March 1, 2013
Steve
Mark and others struggle to understand the difference between being a stenographer and a journalist.
Jason J
8:03 am on Friday, March 1, 2013
It is just a ploy. The Obummer regime is going to make this as painful as possible to their employees and to the public so we all come crying back to them throwing money at them to make it all better. Instead of making the "horrific" cuts to TSA, Health inspectors, schools, teachers, public safety, etc, etc, they could easily wipe out some of the middle management (4 supervisors to 6 workers), travel, use video conferences (like the taxpaying world) instead of flying supervisors around the country to useless conferences.
A few others, end the constant campainging. You won the election, we get that, now shut the hell up and do your job.! Cut the Foreign aid, end some of the waste in all programs, the list is endless.
The federal government wastes more money than these cuts are every month yet we just keep allowing it. Time to stand up and demand spending goes back to 2008 levels and then work it from there.
Plow Boy
9:02 am on Friday, March 1, 2013
Wisconsin will get less money so other States can get more. What are we doing wrong? Don't we senf tax money to Washington too! Let your Federal Senators an Congressman get our share instead of complaining. Wisconsin still sends more money to Washington then we get back.
John Wilson
9:57 am on Friday, March 1, 2013
Plow Boy -
Wisconsin is one of the highest in Federal Tax RETURNED monies in the nation; we get .86 back of each 1.00 sent to the Federal Government… get a clue.
Stick with plowing…
http://visualizingeconomics.com/blog/2010/02/17/federal-taxes-paidreceived-for-each-state
Mr Lundt
10:52 am on Friday, March 1, 2013
You brag as if getting .86 is good.
It stinks and there is NO one suggesting the money we do get is used well. That is never measured.
John Wilson
12:38 pm on Friday, March 1, 2013
Mr Lundt -
Actually, .86 is near the highest, and it is simply GREAT!
"It stinks and there is NO one suggesting the money we do get is used well. That is never measured."
I would suggest you contact Gov. Walker (R) if you think the money is not used well; he is, after all, the "Spender" in our state, and has been for over 2-years. The same goes for "that is never measured."
Write, telephone, email, pay a personal visit with Gov. Walker, and I'm sue he will explain how well the money is spent and how to measure it...
Mr Lundt
1:20 pm on Friday, March 1, 2013
.86 defines 14% waste off the top. It stinks on toast.
It is obvious that you don't have a clue how federal moneys are distributed and what rules are tied to them. For you to think that Walker just gets a check from Obama and not rules is absurd. In MANY cases Walker never see ONE DIME the money is simply spend and wasted in Wisconsin.
You are really ill- informed. Good luck and thanks for articulating a typical Obama voter.
John Wilson
1:57 pm on Friday, March 1, 2013
Mr Lundt -
That is exactly the response I expected... no sources, no facts, just blather and name-calling; you are truly a great representative of your Republican Party.
Any chance you and Steve are married?
Steve ®
10:57 am on Friday, March 1, 2013
Hundreds of billions invested in "green energy" with no return.
Barrett gets to build a trolly to nowhere
Auto companies balled out to later go through structured bankruptcy anyway. Tax payers still on the hook for billions as their stock sell would be for a loss.
Obama phones dramatically increased, hundreds of millions wasted.
Food stamps up 49%
EPA increased by 50%
Obama care to add $6 trillion to long term debt
Nope, I can't find one dime of spending I can't live without. The sky if falling
John Wilson
12:26 pm on Friday, March 1, 2013
Steve ® -
You assertions about “Green Energy” are as simple and incorrect as your inane credit card analogy to the United States economy. [90B was set aside, less than 25B has been spent]
“It found that renewables accounted for 44% of all new energy generation capacity added last year, up from 34% in 2010 and just 10.3% back in 2004.”
Please cite some sources:
“Obama phones dramatically increased, hundreds of millions wasted. [Source?]
Food stamps up 49% [Source?]
EPA increased by 50% [Source?]
Obama care to add $6 trillion to long term debt” [Source?]
It has to be just orgasmic in your little fantasy world, where every absurd thought is committed to text, thrown out to the Patch, without any substantiation whatsoever.
Sources?
http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/12/world/renewables-finance-unep
Craig
2:43 pm on Friday, March 1, 2013
Smokin' John Wilson: Do your own research and use your google machine.
Steve ®
9:58 pm on Saturday, March 2, 2013
Low informed. Google is amazing, so is knowing what is really going on and not needing it.
Mr Lundt
12:31 pm on Friday, March 1, 2013
John
For you to be that out of touch is scary. It is convenient for you to ask others to do your homework. However what it really shows is that your kool aid glass is always being eagerly refilled.
Here is a nice one for you as of late last year:
The President’s policies have not produced jobs. During his time in office, 14.7 million people were added to the food stamp rolls. Over that same time, only 194,000 jobs were created—thus 76 people went on food stamps for every one that found a job.
John Wilson
1:20 pm on Friday, March 1, 2013
Mr Lundt -
It is sad, but expected, to see still another (R) blogger assert things that he cannot - I assume you are a HE, hiding behind a pseudonym - support with any EVIDENCE.
It is not my role to PROVE YOUR QUAINT OR ABSURD ASSERTIONS…
You said it; you support it. [They are your ideas, thoughts or free floating psychotic ideations.]
“Here is a nice one for you as of late last year:
The President’s policies have not produced jobs. During his time in office, 14.7 million people were added to the food stamp rolls. Over that same time, only 194,000 jobs were created—thus 76 people went on food stamps for every one that found a job.”
You quote reads like something directly pulled from Faux News or Snopes, however, I am sure you will send it to me when you get this…
That is nice to hear; and your source would be?
Gov. Walker’s policies are nowhere near creating 250k jobs, and he is well past the middle of his term.
Craig
2:49 pm on Friday, March 1, 2013
Do you use shrooms too?
morninmist
12:59 pm on Thursday, March 7, 2013
@GovWalker is in Florida fundraising. No time to create jobs in WI.
No matter how you spin job numbers, Wisconsin near bottom compared to other states dlvr.it/3380Sm
Steve ®
1:30 pm on Thursday, March 7, 2013
You lie, a lot
http://www.bls.gov/web/laus/laumstrk.htm
morninmist
2:15 pm on Thursday, March 7, 2013
silly stevy
you posted a link about unemployment --which is not about jobs created in WI.
.....
Steve ®
1:30 pm on Thursday, March 7, 2013
You lie, a lot
http://www.bls.gov/web/laus/laumstrk.htm
Steve ®
7:16 pm on Thursday, March 7, 2013
Your comprehension is why you are so easily brainwashed by liberal propaganda. Want more jobs? Approve a mine. Oh wait liberals hate that kind of stuff but whine about jobs.
morninmist
11:40 am on Friday, March 8, 2013
Hey steve with a trademark.
I see you are the one with a comprehension problem. Have a grand day.
@Progress2day video: Mining law headed straight to courts post.cr/WW5dea #Wipolitics @GovWalker #wipolitics
morninmist
1:31 pm on Thursday, March 7, 2013
my my. what a nutcase!
Bryan Fischer: Attending tea party is an ‘excuse’ to be ‘vaporized’ by a drone http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/03/07/bryan-fischer-attending-tea-party-is-an-excuse-to-be-vaporized-by-a-drone/#.UTjq8-A4OfU.twitter
morninmist
12:17 pm on Friday, March 8, 2013
My head spins at so much of what the Repugs demand!
@Progress2day WHOW! Top Republicans Demand Obama Provide Coverage To People With Pre-Existing Conditions http://thkpr.gs/XXy3IK #wiunion
Mar 8, 2013 Republicans voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act more than three dozen times, ran on a pledge to eliminate the law on “day one,” and sought to underfund the measure at every opportunity. But since the Supreme Court upheld the ACA and President Obama won re-election the political dynamics of reform have changed: Republican governors are slowly embracing elements of the law and Congressional Republicans are no longer scheduling votes to repeal it.
..The letter to Obama was signed by House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA), ...
In another sign of the growing political support for health reform — or the sense that opposing its most popular elements has become politically perilous — a group of top House Republicans have written a letter to President Obama asking him to preserve a temporary program included in the law that provides health care coverage to people with pre-existing conditions.....
morninmist
12:19 pm on Friday, March 8, 2013
but not all is will with the teabaggers!
Marco Rubio: I’ll Vote To Shut Down The Government Unless Obamacare Is Completely Defunded http://thkpr.gs/Zm4a1O via @thinkprogress