Perhaps more people will come to realize that the minor spending-growth restraint entailed in the sequester not only entails no disaster, but is a positive development fully consistent with a steadily-rising stock market and more robust job gains.

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Mandatory minimum sentences for drug offences, for example, have been a double disaster, diverting a lot of money from the war on serious crime and turning huge numbers of minor miscreants into hardened criminals.

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And establish a system to alert everyone to the current status minor, medium, major, or worst-case so people in the disaster relief and in the public at large are all on the same page, and can all hear the announcement immediately and know what to do and what everyone else will be doing.

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