It could send us an email or tweet. The question we are asking this morning is in a word how would you describe sequestration . 202 is the area code. You can also join us at email, journal cspan. Org. In the but some of the headlines from outside the beltway, beginning with to the boston sunday globe. A focus on afghanistan. In arizona, the arizona republic, the gallup poll has been asking many of you what you think of sequestration and we found this. In a word, how would you describe sequestration and the larger the word the more often it is used. From disappointed and good to scary. The Washington Post focusing on the politics of sequestration, obama sees 2014 as the key to his legacy. Theyre right they write she is a republican from washington state, here is what she had to say from sequestration. These devastating acrossthe board cuts imposed by the president will affect the lives of so many hardworking americans. Yet this week the president traveled 180 miles to virginia instead of travelling 1. 5 miles to senator harry reid is office office. Reid ands offis the senate never passed a bill to replace the sequestered. In the last year the house of representatives have passed those republics two proposals to replace the sequester with smarter spending cuts. In addition we are looking at ways to close tax loopholes and clean up our tax codes so that we can lower rates and help create jobs. These ideas get government out of the way so we can bring jobs home and preserve the american dream. The president wants to take a different route. He wants to continue singling out americans for tax increases, even after he raised taxes just two months ago to avert the fiscal cliff. The American People know full well that if they give this white house more tax revenue it will be spent on new similar projects and government programs. The president must stop using this debate as an excuse to raise taxes and start seizing this opportunity to cut spending. Host the republican response from the national journal, this morning those were the words used by the president to described the cuts on america by the president. But the president didnt do is accept any responsibility for the sequestration that took effect friday. House Speaker John Boehner was what do they do . They blame each other. That is Available Online at nationaljournal. Com. Some of you weighing in on our twitter account. In one word, necessary. From jupiter, florida on the independent line caller this is only the beginning of what needs to be done. Host what do you want done . Caller cutting. If people want to spend money for things that are not necessary, the money has to come from someplace. Unfortunately the sequestration might not be the best way to cut. It has to start someplace. Host we will go to charles from connecticut on the republican line. Caller necessary. If they dont stop spending sooner or later we are going to end up another greece. You cannot keep spending money you do not have. How they are going to get the money they need, i do not know. One suggestion i have is eliminate Social Security. About three counties in texas were in the kit were independent from Social Security. Host 1 of the leading industries in this town, lobbying and lobbyists. , lobbyists fight again sequester cuts moving into new phase. People can receive instructions how to get in touch with their member of congress. The Transportation Security Administration and Border Protection will make people think twice about their work or a fence or Summer Getaways if sequestration states into effect. In a word how would you describe sequestration . George is on the phone from kentucky. Good morning. Caller i believe the word is necessary. It is just a republican ruse to not obamas second term good. They failed to stop him from a second election so they are going to use this sequester as a bad administration. Host the story Available Online act the wall street journal, saying you can read more online wsj. Com back to your calls, frank joining us from buffalo, new york. A while. Ts been to make a point, i would call it a Social Security has only been in effect for a number of years. Host about 85. Guest we have been increased on Social Security twice. Host when Social Security took effect into the mid 1930s the average age group was 63. Now the average american is living to about 80 years old. Caller i hate to say this, everyone has a loved one in their family. When you get to 86 in the next 10 years there is going to be a big domino fall. Do you realize that 50 people in one city alone, buffalo, new york, per day die. The main point is this, you have x number of baby boomers retiring every day. If they do not replace those new jobs with new people shame on them. For that generation, they need to pump up the money for their Social Securitys so they will have it later and you should be working in reverse today because there are no manufacturing jobs. People are retiring, those people are going to work. How many are there of us . 70 million . Host it is 10,000 per day on average. Caller it is called arithmetic. Host thank you for the call. There is this from our twitter page. Skyfall, the taxpayers pay back. Fromound out this morning tha the town talk, a government now borrowing 35 cents of every dollar and since reduces borrowing by two since and nothing bad happened. Of you this morning a view this morning. Mark is joining us from philadelphia. How would you describe sequestration . Caller a disaster. To all of these people say we have spending problems, here are some facts. The largest Multinational Corporation in this country in recent years have made two hundred 5 billion and have not paid 1 cent in taxes. Gov. Romney made 32 million in 20102011 and paid a 10 tax rate. My wife and i are both working people. I did my tax return last year. My wife and i 35 . My effective tax rate is 25 more than gov. Romney. We have a huge revenue problem, let us get the facts out here. Lets close tax loopholes that allow facebook and to ge and horizon and all of these corporations not to pay any income taxes and get refunds. Host the republican argument is they have already given the president a tax increase to wealthier americans, we are not going to give him another one. Caller there is going to be a tax increase on facebook, on ge. From 0 to 10 . Come on. If these corporations were wealthy individuals, maybe they go from 10 to 15 . You cannot fund the operations of this federal government with just middleclass taxes alone. Host mitt romney is making his first public appearance since losing the election on Fox News Sunday. He talked about sequestration, calling it a missed opportunity for the president. We will have more details on other programs coming up. In a word, describe what sequestration means. The Gallup Organization has taken a look at some of the words americans surveyed on. Larger see the the word the more often it was used. Jim has this on our twitter page front page of the new york times, let me share with you a couple of censuses of sentences she wrote this morning the front page analyzing where we have been and where we are going regarding sequestration. Bill is on the phone from massachusetts. In a word how would you describe sequestration . You are calling on the republican line. Caller overdue. And thee mid 60s advent of Lyndon Johnsons great society, we kicked the can down the road 70 times. We have raised the debt limit over 70 times. We have 535 individual pepyses. We need term limits. Sequestration is the version of a time out. Host thank you for the call. This on our twitter page the president using his weekly address to take aim at congress and is using it to work out an agreement wit. Here is more for president obama. [video clip] it sounds like youre saying this is a republican problem. Give me an example of what i might do. What i am suggesting is i put forward a plan that calls for serious spending cuts, serious entitlement reforms, goes right at the problem that is at the heart of a longterm deficit problem. I have offered negotiations around that kind of balanced approach. So far we have gotten rebuffed because we cannot to any revenue. We cannot do a dimes worth of revenue. What more do you think i should do . I just want to clarify. If people have a suggestion this is a room full of smart folks. That was the president in his News Conference on friday speaking to reporters. One had asked if there was more to be done from the white house and you heard the president s response. Michael barone writing about it this morning. He says the do we have a president or a perpetual candidate . In a word, how would you describe sequestration . Caller good morning you washington journal. It is criminal mischief, reckless endangerment, and finally it is disorderly conduct. It is a pretty low bar. Loitering tradecraft is a top down power push. No District Court lawyer would charge them with criminal mischief. Wreckless enda ngerment. Tradecraft be wedded this. I have a solution, spend some in congress. Give them two weeks vacation in the summer and winter and let everyone else go inside the wire. That would take care of term limits. Host thank you for the call. From our twitter page, most say the spending cuts would have major impacts on the economy and military. Three words the president used, dumb, arbitrary, and inexcusable. On our republican line, good morning. Caller this is designed to create fear and disrupt our economy. The last caller said reckless endangerment. Those are all acts of terrorism. I am concerned because i am going to be leaving for church in two hours, i guarantee people are going to be asking me what is going to be happening. How much more are they going to have to pay for gas . This is a tax on the middle income. We are going to have to absorb it. Host one word by one of our viewers, selfish. From politico, no big splash but the department insists the sequester is dangerous. The onset of sequestration already has begun to gum up the works in the pentagon. The navy is standing down four of its airways. The first to set the idle next month. The chuck hagel said the service has already cancelled the popular blue Angels Flight demonstration. The army will curtail all training units except for those account for afghanistan. It will hit 80 of the active force. Thousands of employees are expected to be furloughed in april. Next call is jessica from louisiana. Good morning. Caller good morning. I just see this sequester as confusing. In my field i get to meet people from everywhere. I had an mp months ago say, he chief. Y commanderin you respect the position, not the paul 6, when you are in the military. Not the politics when you are in the military. Since when is it illegal to be rich . It is not illegal to be rich. I see people getting food stamps every day that have been on it for generations. I voted for change. This election i did not. I am frustrated the people are so selfish that we are seeing this. I think what a sequester is is a bunch of bullying. I do not like that. I want to see accountability. The military and entitlement programs need to be cut. What is not cut is entitlement. The military already got a cut. I want to be rich one day. The thought of winning 10 million in a lot of scares the crap out of me. You would never get half of it. But it is not a crime. In louisiana our own governor paid for obamacare. I am not for bullying and letting people get away with not working and not doing something. The sequester is confusing because it has already hit. When are we going to work on some new stuff . Host joe has this in a word, joy. From cq weekley, concerned the risks outweigh the rewards. International forces accidentally killed two young boys in an operation in southern afghanistan. The command of u. S. And allied forces in afghanistan offering his quote the Coalition Takes full responsibility for those deaths. The boys were killed on thursday and Coalition Forces fired at what they thought were Insurgent Forces in the southern province. He joined afghan nato teams yesterday. Emily has the story inside cq on afghanistan. President cars side has insisted both publicly and privately that he has no interest in holding on to power at the end of his current term, which expires in 2014. The cover story of cq weekly, focusing on afghanistan. Bob is joining us from michigan on the republican line. Caller my word is i will plan it this way the president promised he was going to cut the deficit in half in his first term. He is going to jump up and down like chicken little while 85 billion this guy is a joke. He is a liar. He is running around saying that this guy is going to fall that the sky is going to fall. He promised he would veto those bills to kill the sequestered. He turned around and blamed them for it. The guy is a joke. Host what is the solution . Caller there are thousands of solutions. Get rid of the chamber of commerce, department of energy. I bet there are stuff going on that can be eliminated. You cannot eliminate all kinds of stuff. I know people who get food stamps that have no business getting them. It is just ridiculous. There is all kinds of waste. Host speaking of chambers of commerce, front page of the chicago tribune. The president appeared on 60 minutes and said cathy is on the phone from albuquerque, new mexico on the line for democrats. How would you describe sequestration . Caller i was thinking about the two previous callers. I voted for change. I think it needs to be a bipartisan approach. I dont demonize the wealthy. There are a lot of people in the lower level that are suffering. We need to come together and start at the lower parts. We build these people out. There are a lot of people hurting. I do want change. If we do it in that regard, it is proven to work in other areas. I agree that we need to pay for things that were already spent on. I want everyone to come together and try to work this out. I do not to demonize the wealthy at all. There are a lot of people hurting out there. I am a democrat that voted for obama. I dontnk it think health care went far enough. That is all i wanted to say. Host we featured recently on the tv he points out billions of dollars of waste in government, i called a sequester a joke. The conclave is ready to meet tomorrow at the vatican in rome. Timothy dolan of new york and Shaun Omalley are being talked about as contenders for the papacy. Jennifer is joining us from geneva, new york. Good morning. Caller i just want to read if you fax. Read you a few facts. 1. 6 billion, new tax paloophols for hollywood. Workers doing union work while the taxpayers are paying them. 12 billion more being wasted on greek energy. 2. 2 billion for iphones. And they just released 2000 criminal aliens into the system. There is definitely something wrong here. Thank you for letting me talk. Host thank you for the call. A question on our twitter page what was the article steve reference on a penny pritzger . This is a story from the washington times, nearly 215 campaign by lawyers raised thesectors include the actors include will smith and eva longoria. Here is the president in his weekly address taking aim at congress. [video clip] business is working with the military will have to lay folks off. Hundreds of thousands of americans who served their country, Border Patrol agents, fbi agents, civilians who worked for the Defense Department, will see their wages cut and their hours reduced. This will cause a ripple effect. People will have less money to spend. The longer these cuts remain in place the greater the damage. Economists estimate it could cost a 750,000 jobs and slow our economy by onehalf of 1 . None of this is necessary. It is happening because republicans in congress chose this outcome over closing a single wasteful tax loophole that helps reduce the deficit. Just this week they decided protecting special interest tax breaks for the well off and wellconnected is more important than protecting our military as middleclass families from these cuts. I still believe we can and must replace these cuts with a balanced approach. That is how we can reduce our deficit without laying off workers or forcing parents and students to pay the price. I do not think that is too much to ask. The majority of the American People agree with me, including a majority of republicans. We just need republicans in congress to catch up with their own party and the rest of the country. Host the president in his weekly address that aired yesterday from our twitter page. George will in his syndicated column they are saying the sequester he begins by saying christine is joining us from pennsylvania on our line for democrats. Good morning. Caller my word is job scrap. The reason i say that is, to me it is on the elected corporate control. If these jobs are eliminated and sequestration is suspended, that means these corporations will accumulate far more people that are privately employed vs publicly employed. Private corporations have very few goals. They are lower wages, long working days, fewer benefits, no health care, no pensions. It is greed. Once they have these jobs it will cost us as taxpayers more and we will pay more. People will have fewer benefits. We will all pay. Corporations that will be in control of our government we will have that much more money for their ceos. It is a job crab job grab. Host among the most often used words come good, and disaster. Let me share with you some of the words from this survey on how would you describe the budget sequestration. Bad, good, disaster, god help us, great, dibilitating, democrats introduced bills and a sequester in both the house and the senate. Well go to florida on our line for independents. Welcome to the conversation. Caller i had a couple of points. Where are these illegal aliens being released . Are they being released back into the United States or are they being deported back to their country of origin . Do you know . Host i do not have the answer. Caller isnt that something we should know as american citizens . With all of these reporters yesterday and obama went