Today the White House invited congressional leaders to a meeting
on Friday. Doesn't the White House have a calendar? Friday at
midnight is when the sequestration takes affect unless President
Obama signs an order that they take affect earlier. New
Hampshire would bear its share of the burden along with all
other states. So what is sequestration? Sequestration is a
process that has been around since at least 1980 in which debt
reduction must be made by a certain percentage over a certain
period of time. Over all of history any time sequestration was
to take affect, administrations have hyped the negative impacts
of the most critical government services, hoping for public
outcry and revision of the sequestration. This time we are into
a situation in which nobody on either side seems willing to
budge so some sequestration seems inevitable. Facts around the
sequestration are sketchy at best but best guess is that all
government programs will be cut by about $85 billion (just a
little more than the Sandy Relief pa