you can t move things from less important things in order to make certain essential tasks are taken care of. there are others, this is just a drop in the bucket. sure it is. yeah, now, remember the sequester affects $85 billion worth of spending. we have a federal budget this year will be $3.5 trillion. that is over 3500 billions of dollars. now the problem is this falls in the discretionary side of the budget which is, you know, a very small fraction of the budget. most of the budget is on mandatory, autofy lot. congress didn t revisit every year. there are set formulas that dictate how much will be spent. we have a overall spending problem and a flexibility problem. this is a small amount compared to the total budget because it comes out of the discretionary part of the budget it will hurt that flexibility and hurt badly. bill: is there a point of comparison for this story