The sun still came up, Anne Hathaway is still annoying and it still takes 45 minutes to get a stack of pancakes at Aretha Frankenstiens.
Fears that the federal budget sequester, which went in to effect last night, would end life as we know it have been greatly exaggerated — as have the actual cuts that that will result from sequestration, and the impact of those cuts.
That hasn’t stopped lefty lawmakers and pundits, and their sycophants, from breaking out in “Harlem Shake”-style freakouts as they perpetuate the myth that sequestration would significantly affect government services, bureaucrats’ jobs and federal spending.
In a news conference on Thursday, Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif, went so far as to claim that sequestration would cost America 170 million jobs. Holy cannoli, Maxine, that’s a lot of jobs!
Actually, 170 million is more jobs than there are in the entire country — about 30 million more, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. (Apparently, Waters is so used to passing budgets that spend more dollars than there actually are to spend, that she didn’t realize that it’s impossible to lose more jobs than there are jobs to lose.)