I guess you misunderstood my 1% reference. I was talking about the sequester decrease not "THE" 1%. I guess I'm curious why you think I'm a republican, I'm happy with cuts both social and military...

only one rebuttal, Obama signed the bill. Like it or not every president gets saddled with the collective decisions coming out of Congress.

> Obama's biggest fear is that we'll see that everything is just fine without that 1%, and then maybe we'll start demanding more decreases.

Which is why he has to make the cut hurt. Instead of minimizing waste (reducing travel budgets, etc.) he's going to cut positions with that 1% ...

In total agreement. Anyone can shave 1 to 2 percent of a budget .. In fact as you so rightly point out, we all were asked to do this in 2013. The thing that gets me is how Obama got away with raising a regressive tax like the payroll tax and didn't get slaughtered in the media for raising taxes on the poor and middle class.