Sequestration was established as a means to force the Congressional Budget Committee on Deficit Reduction to produce legislation by November 23, 2011 to further reduce spending by at least $1.5 trillion over 10 years.
The automatic sequestration process threat was intended to force the Congressional Budget Committee on Deficit Reduction to present a reasonable plan to Congress. Predictably, it was unable to do as intended, since they failed to even submit a proposal, yet alone to pass the required amount in cuts by the end of 2012.
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Clearly, using political sequestration as a political maneuver to stimulate political compromise would definitely be contrary to what our Founding Fathers would have envisioned as to how political parties should try to resolve differences. That’s because doing that runs contrary to their concept of ‘public virtue’ which was one of the four Freedom Foundations that the writing of our Constitution was founded upon. Public virtue speaks to the need a democratic republic has for its members to voluntarily sacrifice personal benefit for something greater than themselves.
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