Sequester Spin

One can expect a fair amount of exaggeration, spin, and dissembling regarding the effects of the sequester. No claims, so far, that Americans are chewing hides and lacing their boots with the sinews of game they have killed and eaten in order to survive. President Obama did warn, however, that janitors who clean the Capitol would be hit hard.

That turned out to be … well, not exactly so. But the White House insisted that you had to take overtime into account and if “you depend on that overtime to make ends meet, it is simply a fact that a reduction in overtime is a reduction in your pay.”