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just yet or do we have to wait until we get to thursday? i think this time we may actually avert freakout mode. the vibe on capitol hill is that the sequester may indeed happen on march 1st but that its effects at least for those who are on capitol hill will not be as serious as you re hearing now on all the tv stations, the gloom and doom about long lines at the airports and people not getting their benefits checks. i think it s been really exaggerated. this is only going to represent a little more than 1% of spending for this year and everyone is going to get their budget. they just have to over the course of the year reduce it by 8%. i don t think you ll see drastic cuts immediately and it will give congress time to work out a deal later. because there won t be government shutdowns and things like that happening right away we may actually this time avert real freakout mode. and i think there s a sense on capitol hill that everyone is kind of getting used to these sort of cliff han

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