polls show discontent with the president s handling of health care and other issues. on foreign policy the economy, health care, iran relations, handling syria and budget deficits, his disthe approval numbers are higher than the approval numbers. a new bloomberg poll shows americans disagree with the white house on how to avoid default. 61% say require spending cuts when the debt ceiling is raised even if it risks default. 28% say raise the debt ceiling without condition even if the u.s. is in jeopardy. when it comes to cutting two thi thirds of americans. the sequester didn t have an impact on their family. when it comes to who is responsible for washington dysfunction, congressional
maybe they re sort of dangling the prospect, hey, if you put the fight off on the shut down, we ll get them on the debt ceiling a month later. they re buying themselves a month s time here. i think it is two-fold. a delaying tactic because the leadership, the leadership s issue with this is very simple. they don t philosophically have, there is no daylight on killing obama care. they want to shut down obama care, however, they are worried that just shutting down the government is a one-day tactic and then you have to fight it out for months on end and that gives barack obama, drags barack obama personally into the fight and it s not as steady a ground to fight on. they would much rather do something with the debt ceiling and sequester because barack obama lost a huge amount of credibility by saying dogs and cats will live in sin together if there is a sequester and everyone will be killed if there is a sequester. the sequester didn t affect normal people. it s had some it s one o
but it s squeezed different plays and one of the things you provide equipment to is veterans hospitals. are you concerned that when they come back and washington can t get anything done, that s going to be an even greater worry for your business? well, yes, i am. the sequester didn t affect us deeply. it did impact our department of defense business in a negative way. but that seemed to be offset with growth in the department of veteran affairs which, of course, was not included as part of the sequester. but if you have a government shutdown, it would certainly have a negative impact on our business. mike, what are you hearing from employees or people applying to work at hobby works? do they have anxiety or do you think that their mood is improving as the economy improves in certain areas? well, you know, i think the mood right now is very
disastrous effects president obama said it was going to have but it s squeezed different plays and one of the things you provide equipment to is veterans hospitals. are you concerned that when they come back and washington can t get anything done, that s going to be an even greater worry for your business? well, yes, i am. the sequester didn t affect us deeply. it did impact our department of defense business in a negative way. but that seemed to be offset with growth in the department of veteran affairs which, of course, was not included as part of the sequester. but if you have a government shutdown, it would certainly have a negative impact on our business. mike, what are you hearing from employees or people applying to work at hobby works? do they have anxiety or do you think that their mood is improving as the economy improves in certain areas? well, you know, i think the
in the meantime, we ve always told you about the growing v.a. scandal and the many problems are veterans are having to get to health care. you might think that we aren t spending enough to get our veterans that help that they need. turns out, that s not the case at all. according to the white house, v.a. funding levels growing faster than any other government agency, tripling since just 2000. keeping pace with the massive jump in the number of vets coming home. stephen dinan is a staff writer for the washington times. he s my guest. we ve put money into it but does money always solve the problem? no, that s exactly the lesson you learn from this. if one group has been protected from budget cuts, it s veterans and the military. the sequester didn t affect the v.a. specifically, that was one category we wanted to keep outside of these cuts. in addition, we had the military