Even
The Washington Post is forced to admit it was over-hyped...
Before “sequestration” took effect, the Obama administration issued
specific — and alarming — predictions about what it would bring. There
would be one-hour waits at airport security. Four-hour waits at border
crossings. Prison guards would be furloughed for 12 days. FBI agents, up
to 14.
At the Pentagon, the military health program would be unable to
pay its bills for service members. The mayhem would extend even into
the pantries of the neediest Americans: Around the country, 600,000
low-income women and children would be denied federal food aid.
But none of those things happened.
Sequestration did hit, on
March 1. And since then, the $85 billion budget cut has caused real
reductions in many federal programs that people depend on. But it has
not produced what the Obama administration predicted: widespread
breakdowns in crucial government services.
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