I hope Boehner is pleased with himself with the sequester, getting 98% or whatever that he wanted.

Before the Sequester, let’s try first the following suggested sequesters.

Cut back on Black Ops; take more financial control of the CIA, which has its own air force,(what?); eliminate  perks;  intensify investigation of Medicaid and Medicare fraud;  send  foreign aid money first to the US; cut back on the countless military installations we have all over the world. Let’s stop being and Empire.

Cut back on the overly generous health benefits of Congress;  eliminate perks; cut back on area 51 research; before we go to Mars, let’s use that money for the health of our people; investigate whether US taxpayers are paying for unmarked planes spraying long smoke trails in the upper atmosphere on a daily basis (probably yes); stop now the war in Afghanistan, poor military strategy to begin with; cut all kinds of waste and return the money for the benefit of the people; cut back on drones; stop the installation of the million-acresized building  being constructed for billions for intelligence gathering,  as if we don’t already have enough, as if in the interest of national security the US has to know every  sent email in the world; cut back on bridges that go nowhere.  In sum, let’s get our priorities straight. The health needs of the people come first. Oh, and did I mention the homeless, the starving and some of our abandoned, young veterans in the richest country in the world?

Is this a press release from Okie Warren or was there any actual journalism involved?  Yes, it's unfortunate that we need to cut medical research, but the budget does not balance and there is a spending problem in Washington.  Americans simply cannot bear any additional taxation so we have to spend smarter, rely on charitable contributions, and hope that all of the money the President wasted on "stimulus" programs will have some tangible benefit one of these years.