Good point -- to put it in perspective every employed American who hasn't yet reached $110,000 in salary this year had their personal take home pay cut by 2% when the FICA "contribution" was raised back to 6.2% from 4%.
So we've got Obama and his administration squawking about how government spending is being cut by 2.5% while all the rest of us in the entire country already had our ability to spend cut by 2% as of January 1st. Funny, nobody in the government was very concerned about our budgets getting cut by 2% were they?
And notice that nowhere in the private sector do you see people saying, sorry there will be a longer line at the checkout lines, or sorry, you won't be able to buy what you want. When every private sector employee in the country has their budget cut by 2%, we're expected to carry on as if nothing happened. But when the government's budget is cut by 2.5% they'll have to shut down all kinds of things, and make people wait in line for hours.