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Smarter. over the next decade the cbo forecast the discretionary spending will shrink to 29% of the budget and mandatory to 71 and the sequester is the first. this 85 billion dollars is the first of 1.2 trillion dollars in cuts that are supposed to take place over the next decade and we're increasingly cutting them out of the part of the budget that gets voted upon the discretionary part not out of the mandatory put on autopilot and you know, that's just, making it more and more difficult for us to cut. there's a way out of this and the republicans in the house in my opinion ought to take the ...

Played for the fool here. >> i think the sequester happens and it will be in some ways a yawn because the his tree histrionics coming from the president, the meat standards, is anyone going to call his bluff. >> the things you hear about the skwequester causing recession. >> unless the administration wants them to happen. >> there is no real cut below a baseline of zero, there just isn't, yet, here they come. >> there will be jobs on the line if the sequester take place. >> thousands of teachers, educators will be laid off. and border patrol agents will see their hours reduced. >> panic here. ...

After decade. what i say is good leadership would be putting-- wouldn't be putting the policemen behind you and 95% of them paid by local taxes. if we have good leadership in the country we've known the sequester is coming for a year and why didn't we have a freeze where we didn't replace any federal workers, na would have saved 6 billion over the year we've been waiting for the sequester. >> greta: do you have any opposition to the suggestion we go into sequestration and allow the obama administration to move funds around to accommodate certain programs they think are the right ones to pay? >...

And the large bulk larger than foreign aid would be paying federal workers the same as you pay private workers, if you brought that into parity, you'd save nearly the entire amount that you need for the sequester. >> well, what then to understand this, in all of the discussion about sequestration and where to cut and where not to cut, certain things i don't understand. for instance, the department of labor says that between july 2011, and june 2012, that 4.9 billion in improper unemployment benefits remain, unemployment fraud. i mean, theres' so many-- why is not the discussion at least identi...

Process, yes, you're right. we cut 85 billion dollars this year and no guarantee that people in future years are going to follow through with it. especially as long as this president is in office. remember, this was his idea. he thought it was a great idea. and now, he says it's brutal and arbitrary and wants it revoked. he once threatened to veto any bill that came to him that tried to stop or overturn this sequester, but this is the irony, republicans would be smart to give the president the flexibility so that it's not a cross across the board hairdifficu haircut. and every has to cut 7% ro...