College in New Jersey is expensive enough, we definitely do not need cuts there.

O no the world is ending! Tell me how these cuts can hurt so much when our deficit is 500 billion more than it was back in 2008? Don't believe the sky is falling, they could find places to cut that wouldn't hurt much (there is a government report on 125 billion in wasted spending that they ignore). If these cuts really do cause problems its because they want it to, so that they make people believe there is reason to keep spending levels high. We have a 3.7 trillion dollar budget, 1 trillion plus deficit, do the math, these cuts are a drop in the bucket.

Obama and his buddies are crying wolf and most of the intelligent populace know that. If this nation cannot prune 1.5% off its expenditures, then something is seriously wrong. What is wrong is that Obama knows only asking for tax increases; he does not know how to comprehend reducing expenditures. He really needs to be replaced, by any means possible.

Let's really call it was it is, our government is not cutting any spending. They are not going to have as large an increase in spending over last year then they wanted to. To put it in a way most people understand if
Last year they spent $1.00
This year they wanted to spend $1.10
The cuts are telling them they can only spend $1.05.

If you believe the government is going to cut spending you are a fool.

Why dont they have the automatic cuts start on Welfare/foodstamp programs first?
Why because the average taxpayer would be happy about it and they would lose their political issue.

Also it is not a taxcut Ken is correct.

Gov Christie s 2% cap isn't really a 2% cap either
Besides calling out Republicons in congress and calling out teacher what has Gov Cheesesteak really done?
and No getting his friends jobs at the PA doesn't count
either does no bid contracts set up by happy Gilmore to fleece the tax payers so they could put 300 k into the republicon super pac doesn't count either
Funny I don't see any tax cut from the Christie Admin

Hmmm....if sequestration was such a bad idea, why did President Obama come up with the plan prior to the election? It's disgusting. Additionally, it isn't a cut at all. It is a "decrease" in the rate of additional spending. If we ran our homes the way our elected officials run our country, our children would be hungry and we wouldn't have a roof over our heads. Continue playing golf, Mr. President. I never thought that the hope and change you promised the American people actually meant lose all hope and change for the worse.

Very simply put Obama wanted to put of the debt ceiling talks till after the election budget so Jack Lew suggested, Obama approved, Reid inserted into "compromise" legislation. Simple explanation. President brashly attempts to strong-arm opposition into giving him his way, and opposition says, "eh, not so much. Your scheme, you deal with it. Get serious about compromise, instead of demanding a tax increase every few weeks, and we can talk. The good times of the bottomless MasterCard are over"

Obama created the current situation, and as Chief Executive, controls just how severe the impact will be in any given area. So, let's see how he does, hmmm?

After you all spend all the money the American people has to pay the price! Probably can't wait to retire to receive that big, fat government pension? I'll just keep an eye out for when my property tax has to increase. Thank you.

Why is the media simply regurgitating Obama's nonsense w/o checking facts? Do the math. A 2.4 percent cut shouldn't result in such draconian reductions. He's trying to scare the public so -- once again -- he can get what he wants! Truth is, we need more than a 2.4 percent cut.
BTW, interesting how Michelle O was selected to "appear" at the Oscars. Haven't yet seen any story about how much that dress cost, unlike all similar reporting on Ann Romney's attire.
The US media is a disgrace.

The reality is social security deductions went up 2% January 1st. The sequestration cut is going to be just over 2%. If the average family can bite the bullet, why can't Tax and Spend Obama?? After sequestration was his idea from the beginning. He talks out of both sides of his mouth and is ruining our Great Nation.

Michelle Obama has the time and money to preset an oscar award but they have to cut medical services for poor people. Marie Antoinette anyone?
Why are the Obamas , democrats and Hollywood liberals against the second ammendment and want to ban guns, but they glorify the most violent, blood soaked movies made? The liberals must LOVE gun violence and murder and blood and guts because they get all goose bumps and excited when they watch it. Every day and night. Hw can anyone be horrified by a real life school shooting but then go and watch the same garbage on the movie screen? hypocrites and phonies, that is the only explanation.

no slope the difference is one is reality (ppl getting killed) the other in fantasy
where most republicons live

kinda like blind faith in Gov Tele Tubby with this move with the help of happy Gilmore
Citing an emergency, the state did not make competitive contracts for cleanup work available to local officials until late last month, about 90 days after Sandy inflicted historic damage. A total of 43 towns have operated under the no-bid contract for those three months, paying rates that were in many cases considerably higher than towns that did not hire AshBritt.

The fleecing of the American ppl continues

CUT IT ALL! The government has no business doing half of what it does. It is not ethical to steal someone else's wealth for these no good section 8'ers and welfare queens. So much waste! It might hurt some, but this government spending needs to be cut to the bone! Taxation is slavery. Slavery was never ended, but only EXTENDED TO EVERYONE!

The Federal Govt borrows, against our credit and future taxes, about 40% of the budget. The sequestration cuts are a good but small start, no more. Without reforming Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid, we are all in for a very ugly surprise someday, and that day is getting closer all the time. The government has taken our treasure, spent it, and has made promises to us all that it cannot keep.

This should be a prime example to everyone that we do not need the Department of Education. That Department should be abolished, and let the states run their educational systems. In my opinion, we in New Jersey should only have to pay for New Jersey's school system, not California or any other states. The people of the other states should have the same attitude on this as well.

The Republicans have changed their strategy according to today's NYT. They are now supporting defense cuts, putting the onus on the President to make his next move. Remember that Sequestration when it hits home, prevents those that are affected, from pointing fingers specifically at their elected officials. They will all blame Obama & Congress. Hopefully this doesn't back fire in their faces( the Republicans) forcing people who want government largesse(defense spending for one) to demand higher taxes to pay for them...Now you could debate the economic utility of jobs and services the Government provides, but that'll be like going into a hornet's nest being bit from everywhere, including doing your own?

I can cut 2% easy hell I could cut 5% out of the budget, simple over the past 4 ½ years cut ALL the pork on ALL the bills pass through the house and signed off by BHO!

When the President was on TV with those emergency workers in the background, I got the impression he was using them as hostages to get his way. The "cuts" to be made seem to have a lot more affect than what the dollar figures would indicate. Is this a form of "State Sponsored Terrorism"? Then what does that make Obama? What does that say about the DNC? What does say about those who voted this man into office? I know what it says about those who want to still blame Bush. Answer: they miss him very much. I don't though.

As anyone who runs even a small business can tell you, often the bottom line is bled to death by a thousand cuts (or in this case costs) rather than one big expense. With that in mind, consider the Obama's Christmas vacation to Hawaii: The cost to U.S taxpayers of flying one man, his wife, two daughters and a dog to Hawaii is estimated at $3,639,622. For purposes of comparison, the total bill for flying the entire Royal Family (Queen, princes, dukes, the works) around the world for a year is £4.7 million – or about enough for two Obama vacations.

Obama seethes at "the 1%" for not paying their "fair share" but when you consider that "he lives not like the 1% but rather that ".00001%" as Mark Steyn noted, can you blame taxpayers for balking at handing over even more of their sweat and toil before being satisfied that in a budget in the trillions no one can find $109b (or whatever it is depending on the day) or >2.7% of the 2013 budget (and a mere 10% reduction in the $900b deficit) in under the cushion change that will not have a noticeable impact on our quality of life that now seems so dependent upon the good graces of the Lords of Emerald City, DC?

When his General in front of Richmond, George McClellan, had more troops than he could possibly need to take the city, he kept demanding of Lincoln more and more anyway...Lincoln said that "sending McClellan reinforcements is like shovelling fleas across a barn...not half of them get there." I feel that way about taxes.

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All this fear mongering is quite entertaining. Only the 'low knowledge voter' would think this will really do what Obama claims it will do.
Lets see: $800 Billion dollar stimulus AND 1.2 Trillion in additional spending has done absolutely nothing by way of economic recovery and unemployment reduction YET - $86B (which the US Gov't spends in 72 hours anyway) is catostrophic??

The best thing that can happen is that we do absolutely nothing and let the cuts take effect so everyone can see that the only problem we have is a President who cannot cut any spending.
... besides.. did you know (probably not) Obama has the Executive authority to pick and choose the accounts where the cuts will come from? Did you also know the sequestration was his idea? See what happens when our President is not accountable for submitting a budget in each of his 4 years? He is supposed to say - take from this account, and trim that account, but leave the education account alone. Too bad he never had the ability to manage anything.
... I rest my case.

Brad Schaeffer - You've hit the proverbial nail on the head and did so very eloquently. There is no intent to cut the rate of growth (which in actuality is all that we are speaking of). There appears to be not one budget saving measure that can be implemented without our nation falling into ruin. We, in the private sector, have been cutting our small business expenses nearly daily for the last 4 years. We are accountable to our bottom line. There is no moral outrage from Washington over the job and salary cuts we've been dealing with in our small businesses. Why is it that the sky is falling only when federal and state jobs are on the line? To whom are the President and Congress accountable? I say CUT until it hurts. No new taxes should be implemented because it is simply like handing more crack cocaine to an addict. This is not an issue of which party has the answers. It is an issue of neither party having the guts to do what we must to save our financial future for our children. Cowards....every last one of them!

Until we implement true campaign reform and term limits - trying to stop government spending is like trying to shovel mercury with a pitchfork. I can clearly see the problem but have no easy answers.

Think of it this way New Jersey is one of the states that get back the least money from the government so therefore the cuts should not be of any concern to us ....we could all use a little more belt tightening and a lot less the sky is falling .......

Time to pay up the for all they past debts . Five years into the latest" savior" there is no progress on anything that matters .We are still into counterfeiting money thru the fed . Any day now the world will realize we are a bankrupt country and our dollars will not be worth anything . In the meantime we will go on each side of our "great" political parties making more stupid laws to control the "sheeple" and get all they can out of us. There is no solution to our problem and a crash is inevitable ....

Hey Folks, let's try a little math today! Sorry Obama supporters, this is too difficult for you to understand. So get your info from "The View". Now the subject is addition and subtraction. How much money did Facebook and General Electric avoid in paying taxes last year as a reward from Obama the hostage-taker? Now we add that to the $463M "tax return" (I prefer payback) that Facebook received. Now let's subtract that from this sequestration and what do we get? Now think of all of these people who are losing because GE and Facebook stole their money. Now we all know if Obama supporters read this and tried to think, their heads might explode like in "Scanners".

Could someone PLEASE explain to me what this has to do with horses???

Fact - spending and increased budgets in these areas across the federal government has been over 18% since Obama started.

Now we need to cut 3%. Why all the crying? Government is too big and so fat we won't even feel this. Stop mortgaging my kids' futures!!!

I Heart Sequestration!Cut it all!

As a lucky DOD Civilian, I'll be furloughed for 22 days over the next 4 months ... why aren't our elected officials (who already make too much money) taking a pay cut? WTH???

Wait I know, Let's ask the corporations to bail us out! Verizon, Ford, City Bank, Skank of America. etc etc.

More scare tactics. Too bad the Patch is regurgitating them.

There will be a problem with any bipartisan work because you have a president who makes a proposal that is agreed upon and then he says it's horrible and then blames it on the other party. But I fault the reps because they refuse the greatest threat to America, our freedom, and the future of our children is the Hostage-taker-in Chief! They are either too spineless or gullable to realize that. Save those poor emergency people, please!

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Who cares.....Cut bloated teachers pay and government handouts. These are all long overdue to be cut.

Wanna save a tremendous amount of $, drug test all folks who collect welfare, foodstamps, SS Disability.

....here's the REAL bottom line: You cannot properly build a Socialist regime by cutting spending. All those that 'have' must feel sorry for, and in turn, pay for all those that 'have not' ....until of course no one has anything ...then we're all equal ...and the czar at the top is content.

...of course ...as history has shown ...all those that are then equal in their "have not" status ....get really miffed and rise up to violently overthrow the czar.

Mr. President,
"No", is such an ugly word.
May I suggest you get used to hearing it and learn to work with what you have.

Best Regards,
Stinger

The Patch is becoming a Junior white House Press Corp!
This is spit in the ocean $ were did the writer get this BS from?
This years budget adds $15 BILLION more that last year and now they have to reduce THAT increase by $85 million.
Misinformed voters will help obama's "Sky is Falling" mentality, But you at the Patch should be ashamed of yourselves for publishing this Bull!

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If we can't even cut federal spending by 2.4 percent without much of the country throwing an absolute hissy fit, then what hope does America have? All of this whining and crying about the sequester is absolutely disgraceful. The truth is that even if the sequester goes into effect, the U.S. government will still take in more money than ever before in 2013 and it will still spend more money than ever before in 2013. So it is a bit disingenuous to call what is about to happen "a spending cut", but for the sake of argument let's concede that point. If this is how bad things are now, how bad will they be when a day of reckoning for our economy arrives? And a day of reckoning is coming. Our politicians can try to keep kicking the can down the road for as long as they can, but eventually time will run out. We can borrow our way to prosperity for a while, but in the end there is always a very bitter price to pay for doing so. I would love to tell you that there is a chance that all of this will be turned around, but the truth is that all of this whining and crying about the sequester shows that America is doomed.

Sequestration was Obama's idea back when he was campaigning for the most recent election and he threatened to veto ANYTHING the would stop it. Made him look like he was really tough on the budget and the deficit.

Now that he has been elected, he wants his spending back, and he uses the age old rhetoric of Chicken-Little-Speak to scare the People into thinking we are on the cusp of an economic and public service tragedy. Cops won't show up for hours when you call 911, houses will burn to the ground due to cuts in fire fighters, people will die from common accidents because of degradation in EMS Services, and children will starve because school lunch programs will be cut and parents are too stupid to figure out how to feed them.

Do you not even understand this is not an actual CUT in spending, it is just slowing the rate of growth. Even with sequestration we will still be spending more in 2013 than we did in 2012. It is like saying instead of spending $3.78 this year we are going to spend $3.74 which is still more then the $3.72 we spent last year. It is literally a 1% reduction in the RATE of spending growth. Are we really so fragile that the state of our national economy lies in the balance of a 1% reduction in the rate of Federal spending? If so, we have bigger problems, a.k.a. Greece anyone?

Obama OWNS this fabricated crisis!!!!