it's sts and cedar on the majority report on the phone it's a pleasure to
welcome back to the program
from the huffington post sam stein
not to be confused with sam cedar
welcome in the program sent
uh... academy
i can't tell you how often
nai get home i got it's a real pleasure to meet you your sam stein
and i got to get the opposite political party of the company's who won't
consider you don't really do you get that
desire what happened
it's it's bizarre to me like literally but does this neighborhood so i can do i
i haven't seen you on t_v_ uh... maybe on msn because ann stine
that that uh...
that it doesn't matter so that's fine i appreciate getting the credit for allot
of the work until the past few annabelle on right
tonight
keep up the good work uh... does it really deficits
it really does help me um...
i know i appreciated you taking the time sam i know that you you're stuck now in
a uh...
in some type of elevator shaft
as a matter of my mouth opposed but uh... uh... i wanna talk about the work
you've been doing in ineptitude this is the latest piece but
uh... the work that you've been doing in
uh... in tracking
are the implications of this quest air which is long gone now from
the uh...
the front pages and uh... the uh... the the cable park says
because adat inc there's a sense out there that
the sequester was uh...
sort of the
the mouse that uh... didn't or
blinded didn't order some type of uh... metaphor there but
this is is causing real pain across the country as we speak
yet marking the notes was about to get him parker quite
uh... danny aiello his convention we've been taking cold right now in d_c_ that
says uh... sequestration was oversold bag of
cup and that that should have been really impacted anybody
uh... in there's a really different story if you talk to anyone on the
receiving end of the coxswain predominantly outside d_c_ but a lot of
people in d_c_ too
and uh... you know that their lives have been conclude appended by thirty th of
what we've tried to do is just sort of trace
dea impact of policy decisions in washington dc you where they are
matter the most and do you know we've done it with a number of things um...
the mystery phone with looking at
what's happening with parenting families with kids uh... india at star program
and what it means for them and you know across the country cater being denied
access head star when they previously had a
and that means that parents are being forced to a figure out you know how
they're going to take care of the kids during the day whether they're gonna
have to spring for daycare in some cases how they're going to bring for d two
hotmail today that the kids are betting that they have spent a program and offer
low income families you know that
it's not easy to tell you know they could be somewhere between a rock
five hundred seven hundred dollars a month and you have to take out your
pocket for daycare that you previously can have and so im you know there are
real world implications sequestration in
uh... not not a lot of people understand the merch oregon
and in since this is where we talk about head start and in his uh... a statistic
that site quite often on this program but
a eight child of loaded of into other low income family enters into
kindergarten
with the
s with a glistening vocabulary of twenty thousand less were
and that of the child of upper-income
twenty thousand last words and headstart uh... is at least
uh... mitigates that to some degree where you again kids chains to enter
into school on an equal footing or at least a relatively equal footing and so
the implications here
are not just in terms of of what it does
the the lives of these families at the time
but you're also handicapping children c
nificantly as they go through their their school years
that's absolutely right i mean do you want to repeat the underlying corporate
started pension to put it
disadvantaged kids honors much have been hearing
footing and make an entry in kindergarten and that that's the idea
behind it start use federal resources
to get these kids consider damages that middle-income upper-income kidkraft
spinning out of long-term help and ramifications for these children and
their families
uh... insulated
uh... reading comprehension a writing skills those are very important
but you know as circle so far beyond educational services to you
uh... in vermont and this is part of the starting to look at what they call a
computer program which is basically trying to teach kids in the family's
about dental hygiene and i interviewed a mother whose
older child i hadn't gone through the vermont its parent had all types of
three problems
uh... when she was young in the coffin family you know a lot any coptic it a
lot of pain obviously could looks gaunt dentist repeatedly
our younger daughter was put to rest are programmed to to to to to program she's
been perfectly fine she's great dental hygiene
and they don't like it like a small thing in the grand scheme of things
but having that type of you know professional guidance would respected
dentistry
it something that will come to at least never even contemplated think about it
so many other things on the ledger
that's what had that provides hit and uh... you know just gay give them a
decent shot copper better shot
executing later in life because either formative years for them
and so do we have a sense of it is a possible and then when you know one of
the things that uh... obviously you guys are doing over there at
adopting them post and i should say that there's a number that you have or people
can call in with their stories about uh...
dealing with different aspects of the sequestered numbers eight six oh three
four eight three three seven six there's an email address to will put bob both
those haha on the blog a majority dot f_m_
but uh...
user anyway to get
i mean uh... definitive number of what the implications are because this is new
one of things that i've noticed about the sequester saying that was sort of at
the national
ash no implications or at least affected people who had
excess to the national media or to washington and i'm thinking specifically
about the f_a_a_ cuts
but that there are others
uh... dot the attention but the stuff that is sort of localized
um... it's just not getting
the each is now becoming a a national marrow
while traveling a lot of people in my profession and a lot of people and who
worked for congress
don't have
they're keeping headstart and that's one of the reasons why not that much
attention of donuts but i think that sort of a more pernicious uh...
explanation for what's going on here
uh... which is that a lot of these cuts are happening in the abstracted but
won't get done so arm
you know overhead start for example has shifted a lot of the cuts but they're
gonna make t incoming class of students elk
next year while local head start my for instance offer one hundred fewer slot
that's not affecting anyone right now except for the teachers who get fired
uh... but they did affecting the future generation of parents
uh... in the economic ramifications of sequestration are going to be felt down
the road as well so
died yesterday in a bitter cold on the continent reply i don't know
dating you know protest job we've done
with we were reporting on a protest riva department of defense
civilian employees will be getting there for a living can we talk to budge them
about what they're going to do how they're going to change your
lifestyle habits because they're getting full of now eleven days into the into
september
and when we got hit me goes well
dot call dot com customer first holiday cuz i want to get my comcast bill
reduced antar kat about at that level six hundred and fifty department
department of parenthood and place her gonna get for about if ten percent of
them
he became pages called contact to figure out how to reduce to go
and it's on average they reduced to about twenty dollars what would that be
and up to one point three million dollar hit
uh... for company or contrast now that might be nothing for concept but the
economic ripple effect will it do you go
a long way info dot the thing about sequestration
part of the reason they're in this political pressure to get it done
and repeal of the replaced
is because so much of it is just going to snowball
and eventually down the road we're going to have the uh... you're going to
realize what we want but
all right now i don't think that a lot of political pressure to change course
uh... we we've uh... um...
and we've talked about head start there are other programs that have really been
uh...
to hit by this meals on wheels a comes to mind is well
uh... tia tell us uh... what you know about that in and other areas that we
haven't heard much about in terms of
of where people are feeling the pain
okay for the main
places right now that i feel the pain are digital future programs like head
start meals on wheels which is taking cuts across the city which means
essentially fewer
hotmial development delivered
uh... teeny teeny as across the country pop up with defenders offices across the
country are getting cut and uh... you know what they're doing essentially
they're taking away
but the lawyers who stopped the public defender's office but everything around
so
i talked to a bunch of lawyers and public defender's office who are
basically handling cases without investigators
and anyone who has been in the law
understand that you need an investigation figure out how to argue
your case further basically hampered against him in that respect
uh... medical research is taking a huge hit the national institute of health has
really cut back on the grant that depending too mail
universities in scientist and so what we're gonna end up seeing is a number of
possible advanced instrumental medical technology or science technology
uh...
are just not going to happen and i talked to a researcher team at temple
university who
we're gonna catch three strands of some sort of a
uh... medicine that they're developing not only can attest
uh... so you can imagine what's going to happen in our kitchen lenders finally
mostar
public thing that happened that haven't been fixed edits out
the medicare reimbursement to uh... private
cancer clinic describing opt-out basically private interconnects get
reimburse the cost of administering medicare cancer drugs
and they get a administrative uh... reimbursement for both
reimbursement for going to be cut it can be me basically that fewer patients are
going to get cancer treatment when they needed
they're gonna have to be deferred to public hospitals someone might have to
travel hundreds if not thousand-mile ste
to get the treatment they need
australia i mean if people can be a very different forms across a country
annually
budget where we fixed it is with uh... air traffic controllers hope is blocked
by pleasing meat inspection army trucks
movement have heard around the pros for meat inspectors
now there
that that there is too esp x's one is it's it's sort of a classic case uh...
uh... lack
of political onto that uh... basically
uh... the poor and lower-income people have in this country
uh... and and
and also it seems to me
a a a failure
by
uh...
the steward dance the sequestration and i guess printed
presumably the democrats on some level amin
uh... and the administration
to hold the line on things like uh... the
to meat inspection and the f_a_a_'s so that so that this
it would have the the so-called shared sacrifice
uh... there we hear so you had a
well do you mean the whole idea behind it was shipped back right maybe i did at
work that
republicans would find that department of defense cut repugnant
democrats would find it social taking a cut pune and therefore they'd have to
come to a grim interplay thing
but out of court didn't work out opg part because
we're talking with him when i packed like senate
and democrat that influ
now you know the replacement publication has turned to well what would be enough
struggling
uh... and the pain being felt the crop the country
that congress will have to rethink this
uh...
and i gotta tell you i mean if you look at local but one member of the congress
or back home in the district they you know commiserate with the people who are
suffering greatly
if you put rations a bad thing we want to play three
but the national conversation is
so far removed i didn't do that i talked to a congressman rosa delauro those
people head start and chief editor ok
no one's talking about what they can keep a straight anymore it's just not
even on our radar
uh... and the people who have the power there you know change we've got that are
happening
you know paying attention and so i think uh... not perform for the new york or
grand bargain deal that happens in the next couple months
in order to postpone for that which is uh... that size that's going on in
budget negotiations if if they can't figure out a way to replace
sequestration
in those maybe there is no way out that outside about small champs
uh... it looked like that we're going to be the party for some period of time
right and the debt ceiling and
showdown that'll take place sometime in the in the early fall i think
is certainly are not uh... the
the pressure points don't lead
towards refund in these programs that seems to me
well i mean if i had to make a get you wouldn't necessarily be responding
overcrowded
it would just be workshop plane coming from the cuts will happen regardless the
from these programs and you know
during program value near on nutrition from budget they were cutting um...
stuck like weatherization you know detecting well you know certain storms
in peace
and don't like that but you know for the model program like a head start yet that
that failing grades but there is can they figure out a way that restore from
the fund female i think
i do think you hatching a number of republican deep concern about d_-day cut
the n_i_h_ cramps
uh... you have confounded their districts parking at their parents
commiserating with them
so they remain if i'd like to know political operate out here it's just
that they are both how tough it all the pieces together not and now you got to
do in a minute to bed
the is
the sequestration story of twenty thirteen
seems to be
we uh... it's hard to measure these things because uh... how localized and
and the the
the constituency that is propriety scott's
move into twenty fourteen this is gonna radically changes in it
i think i mean that you're absolutely right about how well you know it's solo
collide
art measured cut
like at four o'clock in the big story is that
you know a lot of the gate in feet have tried as best they can to put up the
cuts as long as they can take
for instance the department of fenced it in start following their employees until
monday
and so you know they push at every everything we could have far back into
the fiscal year sparkle and they did that let me know they did that with the
assumption or at least the whole that congress would address this in some
fashion
it directly and that the company campus
and that when you know the proverbial shit hits the fan and i think education
and radio
and uh... then and i think then you're gonna start hearing a lot more
on whether that can be moffett medicate buddy this is a
slow train wreck that happened real-time
on and we've forgotten about it nationally for a little bit but
it's donates taking place it doesn't take much digging to find
story at some point
mister zyuganov repair for term limits but wondering
uh... why had not noticed this while he was taking place in the cuts that that
that chicken in twenty fourteen are far more severe
it built up over time but but but they really did simply because it had the
snowball at so
when you print in defund early church project r_u_ four to research project to
cut back
that affected in you one obviously did by cutting back but let me bring your q
then you have to do double burden button to get back to where you were and in
fact the original declined and you're not even annual uni stuck at even
reduced funding and then so
just couldn't get catch up to where you why you would be
become the compound in effect info yes obtained it's eighteen twenty foot
income hurt even more dot dot dot
of the cuts in the night the
g_p_a_ cuts the department of labor cuts aren't dave just just on paper
more severe than they were this year input and part of that also because
you're dealing with a full fiscal year as opposed to two thirty fiscal year
yet but we have an eighty five million dollar cut in the fiscal year is going
to be bigger than that i think he could get to the one that i never paying your
monthly
uh... for that type of sequestration pop up on that the fact that we try and turn
it back with these cut bhejna it's gonna be worse
well ok and dumped and
and the at the end of the day from a political standpoint last question
the sequestration if we're to believe guys like that he was jack allude said
this is sort of baked into the d_n_a_ like a you know this was away eight
political momentum in new her to force in the grand bargain
uh... can we say that from a political standpoint
this this whole
all concept of the super committee and then the syquest rationing
as a political uh... concept was a
he uh... real failure
yeah i don't think there's any other way to judge ignoring one of the past
everyone agreed
tui on that
permit that it would mean paths
uh... in a pack
and uh... narrow including with the consequences units such a poorly
if he did it deliberately poorly designed pol is supposed to hurt the
worst the most vulnerable people in propriety
and i've been doing it
uh... but the fact that congress can get it back together
i really felt something and do you know it's been a total failure
and write their well we have is a basically one party in congress that is
fundamentally sort of the
uh... they're they're their agenda seems to be
now think by
to come up the works of government in some fashion
and it was uh... tremendous underestimation i think of that will by
uh...
by the white house and the democrats and so now we're living with the the
consequences
uh... big bro
sam stein thank you so much for joining us and uh... it's open
i wanna make something out of the clear
sense either does not use acts of the kids on the uh... on the record entitled
however appeared
so fired back that no prob would have put a link up with that number in that
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