The Sequester Does Have an Upside

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http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/bo...20%2887%29

“WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—The spending cuts mandated by the sequester may hamper the United States’s ability to invade countries for absolutely no reason, a Pentagon spokesman warned today.

The Pentagon made this gloomy assessment amid widespread fears that the nation’s ability to wage totally optional wars based on bogus pretexts may be in peril.”

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Bummer, I guess Pakistan will be safe… for now... Though I must say, inside the Beltway, people are shitting themselves. This is one area that is not often affected by economic downturns.