Before we get all crazy. The Federal Government was scheduled to spend 100 billion more this year than last year. The sequestration is an 85 billion dollar reduction in the INCREASE. That means that the government will only be able to spend 15 billion more this year than last... and THAT's a CUT?? It's like saying that the anticipated twelve cent per hour raise you were hoping for will only be about 2 cents due to poor business. IS that a CUT?? Someone is lying here...and I know who it is.