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100% for sequestration. The federal government is the only entity that doesn't have to abide by its operating budget. And I think Boehner and Co put a line in the sand on this

I hate the idea of sequestration, but like the execution here. If this has to be the first big salvo fired against our debt, so be it...it's early enough in the political cycle anyway.

Meh, I'd rather endure a moderate recession now than a Europe like situation in 5 years.

Regardless, they won't let it happen, so no need to freak out.

So, what you're saying here is that government workers are going to have the same experience as those who work in the private sector have lived through for the past four years?

Interesting.

The alternative is to come to some sort of debt reduction agreement before the end of the year, that specifically nullifies sequestration. I'm not sure Congress can do something that big before the holidays, but maybe they can.

Sequestration is going to suck, no doubt. But when you put those cuts together with the way Obamacare is going to change the tax/spend agenda in 2013 and beyond, IMO this is something worth pursuing rather than trying to wiggle our way out of tough decisions with these stopgap agreements.

There really is no fix right now- but sequestration as a fix for our fiscal clusterfuck is like preaching sex for virginity. It makes no sense and is going to make a bad situation worse. People seem to be looking at it like it was implemented in the Budget Control Act to be a logical solution if we didn't get spending under control. THAT'S NOT WHY IT WAS PUT IN THAT ACT! It was classic and understandable fear mongering to force a solution. It just never happened. It's like telling your fat neighbor that if he doesn't lose 40 pounds by new years eve, you're going to shoot him in the face. Most people would use this as motivation to lose weight, but this particular person just couldn't stop eating. Are you really going to shoot him in the face?

I sincerely understand the logic of people who think this should happen- but you're wrong. Shit needs to change, yes, we need to fix frivolous overspending, we need to get shit back in order- but sequestration is NOT going to do that. It's going to cost the jobs of tens of millions of government contractors, sub contractors, and vendors. It's going to erase whatever tiny progress our recovery allowed. It's going to make the original bailouts worthless and put us in worse shape than before they happened.

And that was the point of sequestration. It was an "LOL... we'll fix shit before then, yo" type of deal. It just never happened. If you're FOR "lets burn it to the ground and rebuild", sequestration is for you. I just hope you're ready for the shitstorm that's going to come with it.

This is great. The same ones that spent the last couple of months explaining why Romney was going to win are now explaining how the sequester will play out.

Maybe this will help you relax.

Quickly pivoting the political conversation from President Obama’s reelection to Washington’s looming budget battles, House Speaker John A. Boehner on Wednesday offered a potential path to compromise, saying Republicans are “willing to accept new revenue” to tame the soaring national debt and avert an ugly battle over the approaching “fiscal cliff.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/boehner-opens-door-to-new-revenue-to-halt-debt/2012/11/07/2912c5ce-2919-11e2-b4e0-346287b7e56c_story.html?hpid=z1

Whatever they do it should be big, so it doesn't suck up the entire legislative bandwidth for the next couple years. Taxes, entitlements, debt ceiling, the whole shebang. Just get it done, even if they kick the sequester/Bush tax cuts an extra month or two down the road. It will be better to deal with it now.

LoL you so full of hope. You and I know this niggas aint smart enough to make that happen.

So we should just do it again? On a much larger and more prolific scale?

Just axe entire companies "because the private sector went through it, too"?

Wake up, bro. I technically work in the private sector, servicing the public sector. My company would eventually go under with sequestration. If we make this an "eye for an eye" debate, no one will win. This was never the point of the BCA, nor should it have been. If we just want everyone to suffer and "know what its like"... lets do it. See you in the soup lines, bro.