Everything and nothing:

President Obama on Tuesday painted a dire picture of federal government operations across the United States should automatic budget cuts hit on March 1: F.B.I. agents furloughed, criminals released, flights delayed, teachers and police officers laid off and parents frantic to find a place for children locked out of day care centers.

However! As Reuters and others have pointed out, these scary outcomes won’t all fall on Americans’ heads at once. (Less like a “meat cleaver,” as Reuters puts it, and more like a “rolling” blackout of government services.)

Which definitely means Congressional leaders should keep sitting on their hands and let the sequester go ahead and happen!

Eli Sanders is The Stranger's associate editor. His book, "While the City Slept," was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. He once did this and once won this,...

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