Take your household budget and reduce it to 2007 levels. You won’t last long.
I am a Civil Service employee staring down the barrel of a %20 pay cut on top of squat for raises the last couple years.
I agree the military needs to lean up a bit (too many high price weapon systems). Cutting the pay of the workers should be last on their list.
That's what everyone says when it's them. It's normal. It wasn't your fault gov't overspent and you have to suffer the consequences. I agree.
Again, elections have consequences. We're being taken advantage of by the very government that is responsible for the problem in the first place.
2007 levels would be more difficult than now for lots of reasons - less pay and higher prices. But it's not "gutting". Sorry I don't go for that. But it is harder.
Elections have consequences.
The sequester cuts are deliberately designed to cause the maximum amount of human pain, which will generate the human interest news stories that will pressure Republicans to cave.
It’s absolutely no different than the tactic PBS trots out every time their budget is threatened: put a gun to Big Birds head and say he’s going to be taken out first, rather than just cutting back on other areas.
If the GOP is smart they’ll have a list of alternative cuts to bloat ready to go, and will summon Obama Admin agency heads up to explain why they’ve chosen to cut in certain areas rather than others.