{"id":12179,"date":"2011-11-23T09:40:54","date_gmt":"2011-11-23T13:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=12179"},"modified":"2011-11-23T11:44:14","modified_gmt":"2011-11-23T15:44:14","slug":"qotd-how-the-sequester-is-a-symptom-of-political-cowardice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/11\/23\/qotd-how-the-sequester-is-a-symptom-of-political-cowardice\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: How the sequester is a symptom of political cowardice"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Those who can do. Those who can\u2019t form a supercommittee. Those who can\u2019t produce a majority vote in a supercommittee sequester. Those who can\u2019t even sequester are telling the world something profound about American inertia.<\/p>\n<p>As Veronique points out [. . .], the \u201cautomatic\u201d sequestration cuts would over the course of ten years reduce US public debt by only $153 billion. Which boils down to about a month\u2019s worth of the current federal deficit.<\/p>\n<p>Yet even slashing a pimple\u2019s worth of borrowing out of the great oozing mountain of pustules will prove too much for Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Steyn, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/283765\/happy-sweet-sequesterd-days-mark-steyn\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Happy Sweet Sequester\u2019d Days&#8221;, <em>National Review Online<\/em><\/a>, 2011-11-21<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those who can do. Those who can\u2019t form a supercommittee. Those who can\u2019t produce a majority vote in a supercommittee sequester. Those who can\u2019t even sequester are telling the world something profound about American inertia. As Veronique points out [. . .], the \u201cautomatic\u201d sequestration cuts would over the course of ten years reduce US [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,84,53,41,13],"tags":[697,698,71,553],"class_list":["post-12179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-government","category-politics","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-budget","tag-congress","tag-debt","tag-senate"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-3ar","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12180,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12179\/revisions\/12180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}