Monday, March 04, 2013

Five myths about the sequester - The Washington Post

Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein wrote in the Washington Post, Five myths about the sequester. "Our political system was not designed to be efficient, but it wasn’t supposed to be self-destructive, either. After a near-default on the public debt and a ‘fiscal cliff’ that threatened a new recession, we are facing another man-made crisis: the sequester, across-the-board cuts in discretionary domestic and defense spending that began Friday and will extend over a decade. Let’s separate fact from fiction about the sequester and its impact."

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