Out of a greedy government budget of 1.6 trillion, they will cut 85 billion. This is practically nothing and shouldn’t even be noticed among all the waste and corruption when Obama’s cronies are feeding at the trough.
The only reason it is noticed is that cuts will be made in egregious ways...cutting budgets so voters are actually affected, hoping to inflame them against House Republican candidates in ‘14. As always, it’s a political move to discredit opposition to the Marxists’ agenda.
Then if what you say is true about it being "practically nothing" from a fiscal or deficit side, but Sequestration is going to harm Defense to the degree that the entire Joint Chiefs of Staff testified that it would harm us (before the House and Senate Armed Services Committees this week), why do it all?
Defense Cuts In Sequester Would 'Hollow' Military, Joint Chiefs Warn
In fact, these are very deep cuts, they only focus on discretionary spending (Defense taking the brunt), but they don't solve our problem, which is entitlement spending (which is exempt from sequestration).