A frequent Sean Hannity talking point is the Sequester was "nothing." It was definitely something to the one US institution that has bleed, sacrficed, and given more to this nation than any other - the military.
Entitlement checks collected by the most obese nation on the planet (America) were exempt from one dime of Sequester cuts, but the US military was cut by 9% and domestic agencies by only 5%. Worse, because they enacted the cuts in the middle of the fiscal year, the US military endured a 13% real cut in funding, while still absorbing a previous cut over ten years of $487 Billion enacted (and agreed to by the Republicans) in 2011.
The military is 17% of the entire budget, but is forced to "pay for" 50% of all Sequestration cuts.
Gee, that's "fair" right?
Our debt and deficit problems are caused by runaway entitlement spending, with Medicare the worst offender.
The sequester did NOTHING to address the exponential entitlement growth that is breaking our back as a nation.
Those who repeat again and again the Sequestration "was nothing" ar either ignorant of the facts, or choose to ignore them.
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