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Both Parties Agree: Sequestration Is Bad, but Better Than The Alternatives

William3458 Wrote: Feb 24, 2013 5:03 PM
There are only three choices for this country: drastically cut the budget with dramatic entitlement reform; drastically increase taxes on levels of income; or, screw our children and grandchildren by passing on old and new debt for them to pay over the next hundred years. There are NO others.
annfan_777 Wrote: Feb 25, 2013 6:58 AM
Republicans have always wanted option A (entitlements weren't our idea to begin with) but Democrats have always preferred an ugly combination of options B and C.
JulieBrown Wrote: Feb 24, 2013 5:04 PM
Oust Obama and all liberals would be my choice
Sequestration Is the Worst Option Except for All the Other Options Both Democrats and Republicans have been roundly criticizing the security and economic effects of sequestration and, at the same time, taking very little action. The only logical conclusion is that both parties agree that sequestration is an awful, terrible, harmful set of policies - except the other proposed replacements are worse.

President Obama said "these cuts are not smart. They are not fair. They will hurt our economy." Speaker Boehner, writing in the Wall Street Journal, said "there's nothing wrong with cutting spending that much......

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