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March 3, 2013
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Publisher’s Notebook: Shouldn’t Congress suffer for forcing us into sequestration?

Most people I know still believe sequester is something you do to your kids when they steal your car keys. “Go to your room and stay there until you’re 18!” So forgive them if they actually believe the United States government will topple if it is forced to trim a little fat. The 2013 federal budget is roughly $3.5 TRILLION and — as we have discussed previously — that is more money than we could count in several thousand lifetimes. The $85 billion in cuts triggered by a Congress incapable of governing us represents just 2 percent of the national …

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