So the 2013 proposed budget (since we don't have real budgets anymore) is $3.8 Trillion.
$85 billion is roughly 2% of $3.8 Trillion. Does anyone actually believe any of this sky-is-falling rhetoric? This is equivalent to a person making $100,000 a year taking a pay cut of $2,000. Oh, the horror.
So we just raised taxes on everyone and especially on the over $400k group. New taxes for 2013 are projected at $150 billion, nearly twice as much as this $85 billion blip. It's not even a blip. It's absolutely ZERO.
Now, someone please correct me. I do realize you may have been told that a layoff was a result of this cut, but would you really even come close to believing that? You know what will happen if the automatic cuts take place? We will wake up and it will be the next day and that's really about it.
What I also find so strange is that this sequestration was the White House's idea and the president signed it into law and yet he has been traveling around the country spreading nightmare scenarios. I wonder how much that cost.
Ok, please correct me so I understand. Or not, cause I don't really think I care.
