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To: SeekAndFind; ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas; Gilbo_3; NFHale; Impy; AuntB; stephenjohnbanker; ...
RE :”Not only are most people paying very little attention to the sequester, they also have only the faintest sense of what it would do. Less than one in five (18 percent) in the Post-Pew poll say they understand “very well” what would happen if the sequester went into effect.
Those remarkably low numbers come despite the fact that the debate over the sequester has dominated Washington for much of the last month and, in the past week or so, President Obama has cranked up the direness of his warnings about what it could do to the economy.
The lack of interest and knowledge about the sequester stands in contrast to the level of engagement the public showed in the last crisis — the fiscal cliff. In Pew polling done in the run-up to the cliff, 40 percent of people said they were following the negotiations “very” closely, while roughly three in 10 said they had a very strong understanding of what it would mean for themselves and the country if we went off the cliff.”

Well when sequester hits and the electric and water supply go out and the tidal waves hit and the country is salvaged by roaming vampires with no military and police to defend us, the Republicans will wish they 'compromised' with Obama to take away those loopholes. But by then it will be too late.

This is what I figured, outside of DC, Maryland and VA who cares?

11 posted on 02/26/2013 6:45:08 PM PST by sickoflibs (Losing to Dems and Obama is not a principle! Its just losing.)
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There is no Swahili word for sequestration.


15 posted on 02/27/2013 4:22:52 AM PST by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 .....The fairest Deduction to be reduced is the Standard Deduction)
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