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When will you Obama supporters recognize this is the all time incompetent dumb ass president we've ever ever had!
By JILL JACKSON, STEVE CHAGGARIS / CBS NEWS/ March 1, 2013, 8:03 PM
U.S. Capitol official: Obama wrong on janitors' pay cut
President Obama speaks to the media about sequestration in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, D.C. / SAUL LOEB / AFP / GETTY IMAGES
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During his news conference to announce that he and congressional leaders failed to avert the sequester cuts going into effect tonight, President Obama gave several examples of people who will be directly affected by the cuts. It turns out, however, that one of those examples was in error.
"[A]ll the folks who are cleaning the floors at the Capitol -- now that Congress has left, somebody is going to be vacuuming and cleaning those floors and throwing out the garbage -- they're going to have less pay," Mr. Obama said. "The janitors, the security guards, they just got a pay cut, and they've got to figure out how to manage that. That's real."
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The president's mention prompted Carlos Elias, the superintendent of the U.S. Capitol building and the Capitol Visitors Center, to email his employees within hours of Mr. Obama's comment.
"The pay and benefits of EACH of our employees WILL NOT be impacted," Elias wrote.
"There was a specific mention in the news today by a high ranking official that said 'The employees that clean and maintain the US Capitol will receive a cut in pay' (not specific quote but very close to it)," Elias continued.
"This is NOT TRUE," wrote Elias. "Therefore, I request that you please notify all of our employees about the importance of ignoring media reports."
The president's apparent error comes days after critics of the administration's messaging on the sequester's effects pointed out Education Secretary Arne Duncan's failure to back up a claim he made on CBS' "Face the Nation" Sunday.
"There are literally teachers now who are getting pink slips, who are getting notices that they can't come back this fall," Duncan said on Sunday.
U.S. Capitol official: Obama wrong on janitors' pay cut - CBS News
By JILL JACKSON, STEVE CHAGGARIS / CBS NEWS/ March 1, 2013, 8:03 PM
U.S. Capitol official: Obama wrong on janitors' pay cut
President Obama speaks to the media about sequestration in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, D.C. / SAUL LOEB / AFP / GETTY IMAGES
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During his news conference to announce that he and congressional leaders failed to avert the sequester cuts going into effect tonight, President Obama gave several examples of people who will be directly affected by the cuts. It turns out, however, that one of those examples was in error.
"[A]ll the folks who are cleaning the floors at the Capitol -- now that Congress has left, somebody is going to be vacuuming and cleaning those floors and throwing out the garbage -- they're going to have less pay," Mr. Obama said. "The janitors, the security guards, they just got a pay cut, and they've got to figure out how to manage that. That's real."
Sequester: "It's just dumb," Obama says
Full coverage: The sequester
The president's mention prompted Carlos Elias, the superintendent of the U.S. Capitol building and the Capitol Visitors Center, to email his employees within hours of Mr. Obama's comment.
"The pay and benefits of EACH of our employees WILL NOT be impacted," Elias wrote.
"There was a specific mention in the news today by a high ranking official that said 'The employees that clean and maintain the US Capitol will receive a cut in pay' (not specific quote but very close to it)," Elias continued.
"This is NOT TRUE," wrote Elias. "Therefore, I request that you please notify all of our employees about the importance of ignoring media reports."
The president's apparent error comes days after critics of the administration's messaging on the sequester's effects pointed out Education Secretary Arne Duncan's failure to back up a claim he made on CBS' "Face the Nation" Sunday.
"There are literally teachers now who are getting pink slips, who are getting notices that they can't come back this fall," Duncan said on Sunday.
U.S. Capitol official: Obama wrong on janitors' pay cut - CBS News
