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Originally Posted by MS Fowler
If the sequestration amounts to about 2% of the budget, why are they predicting 20% cuts? It can ONLY be because the intention is to make the cuts hurt as many people as possible, and then have a complicit media build up big human interest stories about how the Repubs have hurt the little guy.
It doesn't HAVE to be this way--If the President instructed his staff on a different tact, this could be easily handled.
It is ALL political.
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It's all part of the deal Obama signed in 2011 to take effect if Congress doesn't come to a budget agreement. It was meant to be so distasteful to both sides that there would be no way it would come to pass. Yet here we are. The 20% cut is for a fixed length of time only, not sure how many weeks or months. So even though there is a 20% weekly cut now, over the year it might really be equal to 5 or 10%.