I guess there's no doubt which side Major Garrett sits. This morning's Face the Nation intro:

"The countdown to sequestration continues. With just days before draconian spending cuts are set to kick in..."

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Its a 1.2% cut, if they wanted to they could ax that without anyone even noticing.

But they want to make a stink so their going to do it in a public way.

Wonder what would happen if they had to make an actual cut?

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We'll NEVER find out.

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A decrease in the growth of spending is going to cause Armageddon.

OMG.

This week, everyone at work had to sign papers acknowledging their 30 day notice of 1 day per week furlough. That's a 20% pay cut. All contractors over 2-deep coverage will probably be let go as well.

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Who do you think the majority of people in your position around you will place the blame on for this?

Bush.

Little sympathy from me. I already took my 20+% hit when I was laid off and got my new job. It is tough. Life isn't fair. Of course I will respect you in the morning etc etc.

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Hundreds of thousands of jobs are at risk. Delays await at airports. Padlocks are ready at national parks.

The nation will suffer greater risk of wildfires, workplace deaths, and even surprise weather events, if government predictions are to be believed. Our entire military readiness and superiority are at risk.

What if nobody cares?

President Obama sure does. He’s making the case, aggressively and comprehensively, that the automatic spending cuts set to go into effect at the end of the month will have a devastating impact, both on the economy and on essential government services.

“They will slow our economy. They will eliminate good jobs. They will leave many families who are already stretched to the limit scrambling to figure out what to do,” the president said Saturday in his weekly radio address.

But there are few signs to suggest the public is listening. A poll out late last week found that barely one in four Americans said they’d heard much about the automatic spending cuts — known unhelpfully for public-comprehension purposes as “sequestration” — and four in 10 said they were comfortable with the cuts going into effect.

President Obama Faces ‘Cliff Fatigue’ in Latest Budget Fight - ABC News

There's a sense of apathy, a come what may attitude. Everyone knows its a situation they have no control over so it's time to hunker down. As far as blame, I think most long-time government workers are Democrats, so of course the Republicans are to blame!

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Does anyone actually believe that the Republicans won't cave again?

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Maybe THIS time Lucy will allow Charlie Brown to actually kick the football.


Maybe this time....

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Is a federal brain-mapping project just pie in the sky? The White House will soon unveil a major initiative to map brain cell activity. The effort, led by the National Institutes of Health, could be on the scale Relevant Products/Services of the war on cancer in the 1970s or the Human Genome Project of the '90s, which mapped the human genetic blueprint.

"This is not a project yet. It is more like an idea," says Story Landis, director of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. "The brain is the last great frontier. It's what makes us human, how we think, how we write poetry. And the burden of disease that affects the brain is pretty extraordinary."

Yet the proposal has triggered disagreement among neuroscientists over whether such an effort is warranted or whether it threatens other, more vital research. The debate comes amid intense competition for federal research grants among biomedical researchers, who have seen the National Institutes of Health's $31 billion budget stay flat in recent years after a period of doubling in the past decade.

"We are right on the edge of finding out really vital information Relevant Products/Services about the brain," says Brown University neuroscientist John Donoghue, who was part of the project team. "There are questions we can now answer that can only be tackled as a collaborative project," not by individual labs.

But other researchers such as Leslie Vosshall of Rockefeller University in New York have criticized the ambition and potential cost.

"We don't understand the fly brain yet. How will this come to anything?" Vosshall asked

Researchers Debate Wisdom of Brain-Mapping Idea | Sci-Tech Today

The Old Days; Why climb a Mountain? Because it is there!

The Present; Why climb a Mountain? Because the Government will give us a Grant to do that.

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My hunch is that a great number of under-30 Obama supporters will be little affected by this sequester. So, the drum beating the President is doing is largely fallling on deaf ears.After all, look how little hoopla accompanied the end of the payroll tax reduced rate on Jan.1. When the world doesn't end on Saturday, does Obama's stock drop? Or does he get to claim credit for it?
After all, he owns Sequestration. Bob Woodward tells us so.
Bob Woodward: Obama owns sequestration - Kevin Cirilli - POLITICO.com

Woodward continued: “Obama personally approved of the plan for Lew and Nabors to propose the sequester to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid [D-Nev.]. They did so at 2:30 p.m. July 27, 2011, according to interviews with two senior White House aides who were directly involved.”