The sequester deal isn’t actually going to cut spending because of baseline budgeting. It’s just less spending increases.
The only way to actually bring government in line is to stop raising the debt limit!
It will increase spending, and it should and must. The debate is over decreasing the rate, as it should and must be.
The country adds population. The country grows GDP. There is inflation. You relentlessly must have more spending each year because of simply that. If the US government spent what it spent in say, 1800, there would be no FAA and plane crashes every day. You would get sick every day from bad food because of no FDA. There would be no FBI and the mafia would rule your life. There would be no Air Force. No aircraft carriers. No missiles. None of those existed or were funded in 1800.
What Sequester does is reduce spending as a % of GDP, and while I think that should be quoted as % of population, it nonetheless is a better measure than raw dollars. When you cut spending from the baseline curve, it is indeed a real and proper cut. It just requires us to work to understand it.