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MOO: It's less about cuts and more about how much was spent and now needs to be paid for. For some government organizations and agencies, sequester is basically: your budget is the same this year as it was last year. The problem is that many of these same agencies and organizations have already spent forward whatever increase they might have gotten through baseline budgeting, and now the bill is due. So they end up with last years budget number which they went over then, but planned on accruing the overage against this years number, and now with the sequester, they get the same number as last year, plus the debt they now need to pay for. So in the spirit of fiscal irresponsibility and attrition, it's "Give us the money or else the poor LEO/welfare program/ATC/fireman etc. is gonna get it".

In summary: Its like spending a raise you haven't gotten yet, with the expectation that you are going to get it, and then not getting it, and crying foul because you already spent it; and furthermore threatening to slack off because now you have to make some spending habit changes.

My .02