[2ndDivisionVet]

Six and a half billion dollars in Washington is about six bits to you and me.

[Mark]

The ones laid off are all thinking “We're going to Disney Land!”

[cripplecreek]

critical grants needed to fund everything from schools to new police officers to parks.

Not the parks! Anything but the parks!

OH THE HUMANITY!!!!!

[Dacula]

I met my Congressman this week and when he asked about our feelings on the Sequester, I pointed at him and said heck yes. He was not expecting my response.

[upchuck]

Though there is a concerted effort to blame the president for the sequester, no amount of whitewashing can erase the fact that many conservative members of Congress voted for this plan.

Carefully constructed weasel words.

Bob Woodward sez the sequester came straight from the White House. http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/bob-woodward-obamas-sequester-deal-changer/2013/02/22/c0b65b5e-7ce1-11e2-9a75-dab0201670da_print.html

[umgud]

Lay off everbody at EPA and really save us some money.

[familyop]

"...and hurting American families by slashing critical investments in job training, public health, and public safety."

AKA programs that are notorious for infiltrating and breaking working class families, and certain anti-family constituent groups are probably exaggerating/lying about the likely effect on federal funding (pork) those anti-social programs. Not enough. Spending needs to be cut far more than that, and will, one way or another (default process).

[familyop]

"Six and a half billion dollars in Washington is about six bits to you and me."

It's worth gobs to the local-yocal employees of federal pork, who are watching their neighbors closely to regulate (see fees, fines, real property thefts, etc.) to prevent any do-it-yourself projects and small, new manufacturing shops, though. They are the link between the federal government and certain busybody neighbors, and they must be paid plenty to keep an eye on you.

[rawcatslyentist]

This is all cover, for when 0m0slem defunds the EBT cards, and blames whitey.

Like Donkey Kong!

If you haven't stocked up on food and precious metals (Pb) you'd better hurry up!

[noinfringers2]

I have not been able to grasp what ‘sequestering’ means specifically as to the budget expenditures. I thought at one time I knew what ‘sequestering’ meant but all this talk about budget items has me befuddled. Couldn’t even put the pieces together after checking reference works. I’m guessing the understanding lays in understanding DC political talk.