[kabar]

In addition, the cuts amount to less that 3% of our bloated budget which could handle a 10-20% pruning without pain.

Sequestration insulates most of the entitlement programs and mandatory spending from cuts, so the real impact is almost 10% of the discretionary budget. This is what is causing the pain along with the fact that agencies don't have the freedom to move money from various accounts.

[Girlene]

Sequestration insulates most of the entitlement programs and mandatory spending from cuts, so the real impact is almost 10% of the discretionary budget. This is what is causing the pain along with the fact that agencies don't have the freedom to move money from various accounts.

Yes, it does. Also, by having 800K federal employees getting a 20% paycut with the furlough, that's a lot of people who will be yelling at Congress to do something.

Question. Who chooses/chose where the cuts will be made?