The Mark of the Sequester

A sequester is the mandatory cuts of federal programs that WERE supposed to take place on January 1,2013 at the time of the fiscal cliff. In the original plans of the sequester 5 percent in cuts were to come from non defense programs and  8 percent from defense programs. The sequester motion was pushed back to March 1. 2013 in hopes of avoiding the dreadful sequester in plans to reach an agreement with congress on spending cuts. Due to the lack of cohesiveness between congress and the president now the government face a big economic downturn with mandatory spending cuts across the board in the amount of 1.2 trillion dollars for this year. http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/03/01/forced-spending-cuts-begin-today/?hpt=hp_inthenews Many ask whats the big deal with the sequester? When the sequester motion was pushed back until March 1,2013 the congress could negotiate which programs were affected and cut to protect valuable interests such as head-start programs, airport security, transportation, and thing of that nature. With the lack of compromise the President has until 11:59 pm tonight to cut spending across the board which means although border security may be more important than developing another nuclear weapon since we have so many now all government programs must face spending cuts regardless of their importance. This will hurt government employees facing furloughs, airport security, head-start programs, down to capitol security. These programs are essential tot he maintenance of the country it affects not only the economy but our safety. Instead of losing 5 percent in non defense programs and 8 percent in defense programs the country now loses 9 percent in non defense programs and 13 percent in defense programs. The only silver lining to the sequester is that the military budget which takes a huge amount of the governmental budget finally gets reduced and that the president can implement roll backs in the sequester. This means that instead of all the money being taken at once it can be implemented at later dates in chance of congress reaching a deal to cut certain programs spending over others in the coming months saving funding for important programs and helping some people keep their jobs longer. This sequester is an extremely big deal because everyone is affected and citizen vote for their representatives to protect their jobs and to prevent things like this from happening. Congress dropped the ball on this issue and now many innocent children will suffer the ill effects of not starting their learning processes when they are younger when their minds are sponges and easily able to retain and grasp concepts. Families will lose income and jobs which is very ironic that many facing job loss are those whom work for the federal government in which you would think is the most secure of jobs in America.