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Sequester Death Toll: One Job | The American Spectator
At the core of the dysfunction in Washington is this dilemma: Government must approve spending cuts, yet government has no interest in approving spending cuts. Federal employees are quite content with their lifestyles—46 percent more in retirement benefits than the private sector, cozy job security—and don’t want to see them trimmed. Thus even spending reductions that make it through Congress rarely make a difference.
Look at what happened with the sequester.
By now just reading the word “sequester” should render the average reader cowering under his desk while “Flight of the Valkyries” thunders in his mind. Sequestration, after all, was supposed to hack apart the social order as we knew it. Chris Matthews called it a “doomsday machine.” President Obama warned that “people are going to be hurt.” The Congressional Budget Office predicted 750,000 jobs could be lost. Sequestration, as the trendy metaphor went, was a meat cleaver when what we really needed was a scalpel.
It now seems the cleaver had a rather dull edge. A recent Government Accountability Office found that the sequester resulted in exactly one government layoff. One. That means sequestration has killed the same number of federal jobs as a Tweet praising the show “2 Broke Girls.”
Many other employees were furloughed with a 20 percent pay cut for the days they didn’t work, which got them celebrated as suffering servants in the pages of the Washington Post. The Defense Department, which was hit the hardest, furloughed 640,500 employees, while the Treasury furloughed 84,000 and the Department of Transportation 16,000. But no agency furloughed anyone for more than seven days. That means a worker who would have taken home $50,000 last year instead pocketed $49,808.
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