Please note that sequestration doesn't "cut federal spending" by 2.4 percent it merely reduces INCREASES in spendindg by 2.4 percent. If we cant reduce spending increases by 2.4 percent without going into this kind of hysteria then you can multiply every point this article makes X 10.
Exactly!
If we can’t even cut federal spending by 2.4 percent without much of the country throwing an absolute hissy fit”
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You have to remember for those that haven’t been or refuse to pay attention, they have been bombarded for the last two weeks, non stop, about all the perils of doing something ‘chicken little himself’ not only invented but pushed and threatened the people that said you can’t do this a year or so ago.
Good example on Chris Plante (WMAL 630AM DC)
Say you made 100,000 last year and your boss told you that you would get a raise to 110,000 on Mar 1.
Mar 1 rolls along and he says, “Sorry, I can only do 108,000 at this time”. While you may not ‘like’ it, in reality you did get an 8 thousand dollar raise, not the 10 you were expecting BUT 8 is nothing to sneeze at.
So “do you panic and sell everything, including your children”?
Obozo took the 85 million (nice round #) and applied (hypothetically) it (THE FULL AMOUNT) to every agency and led his gasping followers to believe the sky was really falling.
You nailed it. We have to be willing (as a nation) to get down to the ZERO INCREASE level before we can even begin to make the necessary cuts. I don’t see us ever getting there in time.