This will, the President tells us, result in drastic cuts in essential services, like air traffic control, meat inspections, and aircraft carrier deployments.
It is insane that a series of cuts that represent only 2.5% of all federal spending and 5% of the budgets of most federal agencies will be allowed -- according to the administration -- to create havoc with airplane flights, bring grinding slowdowns to meat inspections, force an aircraft carrier to stay in port ... the litany goes on.