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The Sequester in One Chart

March 1, 2013, 11:51 am

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source (and don't miss the Maxine Waters classic about 150 million jobs at stake, at the link).

Via Maggies Farm

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  • anonzmous

    Funny how that chart tails off during Clinton and spikes up hard during Bush II. I wonder how much is DHS? Rahm isn't the first one to not let a crisis go to waste.

  • What the...

    Its Obamageddon - the country will come to halt !! ... or not.

  • marque2

    Notice too that most of the spike in the Bush years occurred when the Dems took over congress and the senate. early Bush years don't look so bad actually.

    Also notice how it started going up under Clinton until the GOP took over the house.

  • Jtsulli

    It looks like the upward trend starts back up in 1996, still four years before junior took over for Clinton. The big spike upwards, as marque2 notes, is in 2006 when the democrats returned to control of congress.

  • norse

    Spot on. That said - dear readers and commenters, this is not a D vs R issue. This is a Washington vs the People issue. Government spending needs to come down around 30% at least, and neither of the parties is the least bit interested in seeing that happen. Please work hard to vote anyone currently holding Office out of it and replace them with someone who has at least a bit of common sense.

  • http://twitter.com/tjic tjic

    It does my heart good to see the animated graphic at the bottom. ;-)

  • nehemiah

    Wait until those 150 million workers get laid off due to sequestration.

  • http://devilish-details.blogspot.com/ mesaeconoguy

    Maxine Waters is an offensively stupid pig, and much of the problem.

  • http://www.facebook.com/matthew.slyfield Matthew Slyfield

    A 50% reduction in federal expenditures would not be unreasonable.

  • http://www.facebook.com/matthew.slyfield Matthew Slyfield

    "congress and the senate"

    Pet peeve: The Senate is part of congress, the other body is the House of Representatives the term Congress refers to both together. I also hate it when the media refers to Senators and Congressmen. Senators ARE Congressmen. The correct phrase would be Senators and Representatives.

  • http://devilish-details.blogspot.com/ mesaeconoguy

    Exactly. They usually do this as a reference to isolate (even subconsciously) Republicans from "the reasonable branches" in their warped view.

  • Zachriel

    Think it's sorta like the "pound of flesh" deal. It matters what part you cut off.

  • marque2

    Yes, I meant House and Senate Mr Pedantic. :P

  • http://www.facebook.com/matthew.slyfield Matthew Slyfield

    I am not pedantic, I only have this one nit that I just can't help picking. :)

  • http://devilish-details.blogspot.com/ mesaeconoguy

    Sorry, I meant Democrat leftist pig, with lots of unearned and undeserved power.

    Oink oink.

  • http://devilish-details.blogspot.com/ mesaeconoguy

    No, wait until the foodstamps are cutoff.

    http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-02-11/chart-day-households-foodstamps-rise-new-record

    410, 12, or 20 gauge?

  • Daublin

    Very well done. The graph makes it much more clear than reams of text about small percentages.

  • JDKLAf

    Well, you are a magnificent creature and you do not deserve to be mistakenly called the wrong names. In this case, a bot. You are not a bot, but a wonderful human and I respect you for that.

  • ljfkdsa

    You are only describing one of the objects.

  • daf

    Money, money, money.

  • http://www.facebook.com/scott.j.brooks1 Scott J. Brooks

    Wow! Let's go back to 1925 levels. The days of Silent Cal.

  • wbonesteel

    The scary thing about it?
    It wasn't until this last week that conservatives figured out that they were being lied to...and some conservatives still haven't figured it out.
    In short, many, if not most conservatives were running in circles screaming and shouting that sequestration was going to end the world.
    Conservatives were buying into -and spreading- the Dem and MSM propaganda. ...but, we hate Dems and the MSM and we know that they always lie to us.
    Yeah. We're the smart ones in the room.

  • marque2

    I would be happy if the government just froze spending to pop increase + inflation. That would be 2.75% this year - vs 7% without sequester and 4.8% with. My understanding is if we did this then the deficit would be around zero in must 7 years.