Look at history. The GOP did the same thing when Clinton was president. Reagan and G H W Bush had severely increased the deficit but when a democrat took office the GOP became concerned about debt. They are doing the same with Obama. Do not vote Republican in 2014.

Look at history. A Repblican congress with Bill Clinton passed a balanced budget. Debt is now totally out of control after Democrat control. The senate has not passed a budget in three years. We need intelligent responsible people from both parties to step up and control spending and cut waste.

Look at history. Obama came in the largest debt anyone ever inherited. He also had the two Bush wars going on which he put in the budget (Bush never did). The drunken spending, the irrational tax cuts while fighting two wars and the rampant deregulation that caused the greatest economic disaster since the great depression were all Republican programs. Spending under Obama is at its lowest point in years but we still need job creation and the GOP is not interested in that. Clinton's years were blessed by the Dot Com boom which greatly increased revenues and helped balance the budget. Cutting waist is essential but raising revenues is needed as well. Cutting tax breaks to the wealthy and ending subsidies to oil companies is preferable in my view than cutting pay, jobs and services. Logic would argue to get the economy on solid footing with higher and steady employment before you start killing jobs and spending.

Look in the mirror. Americans want the world but don't want to pay for it. We're all responsible.

The Republican Party fails to realize that when Clinton left office, the budget was in a surplus. Perhaps they do remember, benefit of doubt. Then the country went through 12 years of a republican president. We have managed to get into 2 wars and tax codes for the wealthy became greater, while the burden was pushed on the middle class. So, just with these 2 things our economy actually began to suffer then. So everybody wants to point the fingers and talk about the past an does not want to work on the future and I say this to both parties. We are supposed to learn from our past and grow. Apparently we have not done this. Such a shame for such a great country and so little regard for its citizens.

Once again, this is a very complex issue...and attacking it with "Henny Pennyism" is ridiculous. I really wish Patch would use more sources than HuffPost in their political/economic reporting...start with the Wall Street Journal!

Obama wanted a Big deal to finally fix the long term problem, $4 trillion real cuts to balance, instead he created $2.5 trillion fantacy cuts of increased spoending, moved the Goal posts another $400 billion, if they did the minimum and cut and raised taxes over 10 years we world not need the Sequester. He needed ime to get his big deal ,we found out he can cut back to 2007 spending even though wars were in those numbers , Savings ??? Obama is the President han he has control look at Arizona that cut 30% of thier real spending budget. No more funny budgets and get real cuts, 25 % GDP spending going to 30% gets us so close to Greece, your stealing from our Children and Grandchildren , our College graduates can get good jobs, and older worker are retiring way too early.

When a man becomes President [as Harry Truman said] "The Buck stops here."
He should be a leader, a man, not a crybaby or a put the blame on someone else person. This constant blame is that of a child, not of a leader. Please grow-up Mr O'bama, take responsibility As President he is the leader of BOTH parties. When new ideas are presented, really check them out, not on a party-line, but for the good of the whole country

Total failure to lead by the one person that should be able to get both sides to come together, the President. Remember all the speeches, he told us that he should be elected because he was the best person to bring both sides together.

I agree that congress is probably at it's low point for both Republicans and Democrats, however, our president got elected touting his "Hope and Change" vision. That he would bring the country together,,, well he hasn't done any better than any of previous three presidents, in fact worse.

Again, I agree that the republicans are making it difficult, but the president should have the wisdom and political skills to move the country forward. Clinton was very effective with a very hostile congress and even Bush #2 did better than obama. During W's last term I was ready for change. I bought obama's vision for a political environment that brought both parties together, Hope and Change... And again, I know republicans make it difficult but I can't point to one example when the president put himself in the center of a debate and brought the two sides together. He typically uses the podium to discredit the republicans and demands everything goes in his direction.

Since the election, I notice a trend that more people are starting to take exception with our president's performance.

History will not be kind to this congress or especially this president...

The problem is the American voters who are not listening to those we elected or rather those who we elected are not listening to us. The recession of 2007 was brought about by too much debt for many and now the federal government is doing the same. The solution is for our elected officials must rise above their own selves and put themselves and their families into the same state we are in and give up the private special healthcare they have and be part of the Affordable Act and then to drop their own private retirement and join us. They are not elite they are citizens. When they do they will then learn to balance and pass the federal budget and begin to live within their means. What about term limits for congress just like the President. Jim King

President Obama got his taxes upfront with a promise to reduce spending. It doesn't take a democrat or republican to see what he is up to! Take politics aside and which fence you are on! I believe in truth in action. Everyone essentially received a two percent tax hike in December. Now it is time for government to reduce spending at least by two percent. What is fair for us all to do they also need to be accountable also.

We keep on talking one party over the other when our president is really neither. He's anti American. His goal is one world. Neutralize America so we have no choice but to conform. The future doesn't look good if we keep going in the direction we're in. We do need a new government that considers the strengths of both sides/ideas and knows how to make it work.

The Republican Party is definitely the blame, three solid reasons. 1-History tells us their economic plan doesn’t work, they had eight years under the Bush administration, ran up the largest debt in the history of the US and put us in the largest recession. 2-The Republican Party drastically shrank the lower middle to upper middle class, which does 80% of our gross product spending, this is our economic sweet spot. Demand creates the need for jobs and supply fills those demand, so demand creates jobs not the wealthy but they benefit from it. For every person in the US, there is around 10 to 20 companies trying to get their business, so when the demand shrinks so does the jobs. President Obama is trying to build up our economic sweet spot but the Republican Party isn’t cooperating, which leads to number three. 3-Every Republican candidate signs a pledge agreement which states they will not raise taxes which handcuffs the Republican Party. When we need to grow our economy but the Republican Party has to stick to this agreement, which only helps the top 2% get richer. This 2% formed Citizen Untied which came up with this pledge. Who is the Republican Party working for the people or Citizen United? They get paid by the people but their interest’s lies with Citizen United. This is like getting hired by a Company but your efforts are limited by signing agreement from a third party, you would get fired in a heartbeat, I wish we can do the same with this Republican Party.

...To maintain the American ideology.

I have watched and waited for the 'Hope and Change' that I did not vote for. What I have seen is more divide between the sides and, sadly, propagated by Obama that promised a NEW Washington that would work together to solve problems. Calling folks names and framing false scenarios blamed on one group does not bring the sides together. It creates the morass we see growing everyday among our elected leaders.

But I saw one post here that I applaud for narrowing the blame –it’s us. We want a life that we want someone else to pay for. We all truthfully know that Social Security was established when life expectancy was far less yet we still want to retire on someone else’s dime. One of the earliest Social Security recipients put in $23 before retiring and took our thousands. We have been playing catch-up ever since. Our children are not responsible for our futures. We are responsible for theirs. It’s time to start ‘looking in the mirror.’

You want change. Vote every incumbent out of office. And continue to do so every two terms. Our politicians won’t give us term limits. Let’s force it on them.

It's not the President's job to make congress cooperate and pass laws that he can either sign or reject. Congress must pass the law first. Having said that, it seems that the Repubican strategy is simply to try to slow down or stop governing, and then try to blame everything on the Dems and the Pres. After a few more months of this the people will figure it out and vote Democratic, but by then the economy will be nearly dead again. It's not the deficit. It's the economy (jobs and infrastructure) stupids.

Both political parties viewed the across-the-board sequester discretionary cuts of 85.4 billion in 2013 (or 2.5 cents on every dollar) as abhorrent and hurtful to the American people.

Republican cried fowl because the sequester goal post had been moved. Hadn't Democrats already realized a $600 billion tax increase in January! Also, the sequester deal, signed by President Obama in 2011, was initially dreamed up by Jacob Lew of the White House.

Although Republicans offered Obama authority to decide how the $85 billion in spending cuts could be done in a different way to lessen their negative impact upon the American people, Obama instead went on the road to warn the American people how the sequester would result in fewer traffic controllers, police and firefighters, and meat inspectors, etc. Shouldn't it be a no-brainer for agencies to save billions by cutting waste where it actually exists.

An even greater financial crisis will befall this nation of March 27 -- the date current government funding expire -- when Congress must pass another continuing resolution (CR) to keep the government operating.,

Given the rancor expressed over the $85.4 billion of sequester cuts which are mere sliver of our nation's 2013 budget of $3.8 trillion what hope is there that a compromise can be reached by March 27 to curtail the size, scope and cost of government to prevent a government shutdown?

The republicans are to blame, but all 535 in congress should be fired when they don't do their job.

Government in general has a habit of slashing back at the taxpayer when their budgets are cut. Congress does it, Springfield does it, Sacramento did it to California residents after prop 13 rolled back and capped property taxes.

Until the citizens fight back against these politicians, the abuse will continue. To say that it's congresses fault, but I'm still going to re-elect my scumbag will perpetuate the problem. They all need to go. NOW!

It's very simple... EVERYONE!!!
Every person that says "who's to blame" is a part of the problem. Republicans, Democrats, Legislators, President, Media, everyone is to blame for this because it's easier to blame the other guy instead of stepping up and finding a solution. Obama can't be a leader and gather both sides to work on a deal. Republicans are stubborn and won't take a deal unless it's exactly what they want. Compromise is a foreign term in Washington. Something that should be very easy to do is drowning in a lack of bipartisanship. Unless something is done to fix Washington, I fear that this could be the beginning of the downfall of our country.

Republicans are taking revenge on the citizens of USA for voting Obama to presidency for 4 more years. If Romney was the president, he would have offered the same formula that Obama gave and the repubs would have voted for the financial plan like obedient puppy dogs.
Republicans are to blame.
Most of the country do not bother read the details of the current so called negotiations.

I have 1 thing to say...

WMD

As far as the tax cuts Obama got this year that is basically not 100% accurate. What actually happened was that the Bush Tax Cuts that should have expired in 2010 were finally allowed to expire for the top 2 percent. Obama fought to keep the tax breaks for the middle class. Republicans are now using this expiration as a talking point that "They gave the President the tax increases he wanted." Even in this he compromised by raising his desire to allow them to expire for those making more than 250K. The GOP economic policies do not work. If they did, after ten years, they should have trickled down to the middle class and the poor. Unemployment should be minimal and a majority of Americans should be prospering, not just the 2%.

You need a "both" option. This congress doesn't work together. I blame that on the tea baggers. But no one on either side is willing to give in. I think the sequester should cut the salaries of all in congress. Then maybe they'll get serious and compromise on both sides.

Actions simply speak louder than words. The sequester was approved in 2011 by the President and the Democrats. The Republicans went more than out of their way by allowing a huge tax increase. Now it is time for Obama and the Democrats not to create fear but to do their part and not simply ask for more taxes (be they in the form of taxes or in the shape of fees to the private industry which are passed through to the consumer)

How embarrassing, our own government--people we've elected to their roles--and they cannot compromise nor effectively get along to save this country's health. Truly pathetic & I've lost complete respect for anyone supposedly elected "for the people." Our president is supposed to be a leader and congress is supposed to make decisions for the best health of the country & they are completely unable to negotiate. They have no problem spending OUR money or attending ritzy DC balls & parties, but they cannot save this country? President + Congress = FAIL. Tell me, would YOU run you're business this way?

I'm done following this debate. This reflects the problem occurring in Washington. We are more interested in placing blame than solving problems. 'It's his fault' might get you out of being grounded but is NOT how adults solve problems.

Whatever side you are in, this Country has a spending problem and that spending problem is leading to a lack of revenues. You need to address the problem (Spending) first. Then you can come back and add extra resources (Revenues) to combat the deficit.

Let's stop blaming others and find a way to fix this issue. My goodness, We talked about the low ratings for Obama, Congress, and the Senate. They are only reflecting us and the bickering that occurs between us. Go back and read all these comments. We should be embarrassed to complain about Washington when we do the same thing.

The budget without the cuts $3.803 trillion, with a $901 billion deficit.
The budget with the cuts $3.718 trillion, with a $816 billion deficit.

Interest paid in 2012 on the federal debt $360 billion.
Size of proposed budget cuts $85 billion.

If we keep spending, our loan rating will drop, and we will be forced to pay higher interest rates to our lenders. If this coincides with higher inflation, an inevitable result of a continued increase in the monetary supply with no corresponding increase in production, then the long term price of that additional $816 billion in debt will end up costing us way more than the $85 billion "cut".

These cuts are nothing. This is all scare mongering.

I think many people are forgetting that this President has never managed anything in his life. He is a Chicago creation. All one needs to do is look at where he comes from. He is a community organizer who is used to pitting one side against another using political pressure to get his way. That doesn't work outside of a community. He is not going to change. That's the only way he knows. This is Chicago machine politics at its worst.

Vicky is right--this is merely the Chicago politicians taking their show on the road and infecting the entire nation. At least now the rest of the nation knows the crap we have to put up with in Illinois.

First they are NOT CUTS! They are reductions in projected spending. They project an 8% increase and when they only get 4%, they cry they had to cut. ONLY IN GOVERNMENT would this kind of accounting work. In any business or family, this is illegal, immoral, or both and would definetly lead to the financial ruin of everyone involved. Those of you that continue to espouse party over people are only furthering problem.

Good luck, this is just the beginning...GO TEAM BS!!

TRUTH!!! We are all to blame---because we all have our own selfish desires! Wealthy & Republican---cut social programs, don't raise taxes even a little even though they are at a 12 yr low. Don't cut ANY military spending.
Independent & middle wealth---cut fairly across the board & raise taxes fairly.
Poor Lower wage earner & Democratic---Raise Taxes on Most & cut military & raise social spending!!
How do you make everyone Happy???-----YOU CAN'T!!! Who gets hurt first is the Question. Anyone else see the problem??

The Politically Inconvenient Truth:

President Obama created in 2010 the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, including a wide array of experts, from all partisan sectors, which produced the Bowles-Simpson Plan. Unfortunately President Obama, and some other politicians in Washington, have preferred to totally disregard the Plan, and what experts recommended, mainly for pure political reasons. But at some point in time we will need to recognize that our Fiscal path is Unsustainable, and maybe then it will be Too Late.

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-02-28/why-wont-americans-listen-to-alan-simpson-and-erskine-bowles

Dr. Lliliana Fargo
Ph.D. Economics

The Republicans may have dug the hole but the President still has the shovel. The Republicans at least have put together a budget, favorable or not at least they did it. When the Whitehouse put together a budget EVERYONE both parties rejected it. That alone should tell you something about the President's policies. And finally without a budget how can anyone "cut" from something that doesn't exist?

Let's see, I plan on spending $10,000 on my home this year. After checking my finances I'll only be able to do $500 worth of work, therefore by DC mentality I've saved $19,500. FANTASTIC.

Since the last time that the Senete Dems passed a budget Facebook has grown from about 200 million users to 900 million users, Glee had not yet premiered, Bernie Madoff was a free man, "Jersey Shore" wasn't on TV, Tiger Woods was happily married, Lindsey Lohan was unfamiliar with prison jumpsuits, Lost was still on TV, there was no such thing as an iPad and no one had launched a single "Angry Bird" at a single green pig.

Dems would rather tax and spend then face the tough task of cutting our bloated size of government. But it's never their fault even though they have held the majority in the Senete for the passed 6 years and the majority in Congress for 4 out of the past 6 years. Somehow it's the other guy's fault. Typical liberal resonse. An ignorant response. Under the leadership of this president Washington is as dysfunctional as Illinois (Dems and Madigan).

To answer the question, both parties are to blame but I place the majority on our questionable leader in the White House running on hope and change. Yea right.

Found this on you tube... Kinda funny about the federal debt.

http://www.youtube.com/embed/Li0no7O9zmE

quit blaming it on democrats, republicans or any other party. Not one person that is in WASHINGTON gives a crap. Quit re-electing the same people every time thay run for re-election. Every single one of these people in washington is the reason this country is like it is. Do you realize that senators make $170,000 a year and resps make $150,000 a year. Why are they being paid. They should not get paid until they fix this mess

Your poll is biased. You forgot to include: The Whitehouse, Representatives, Senators, Lobbyists, Liberals, Conservatives, Democrats, Progressives, Teaparty and Libertarians. Why are you only targeting the Republicans????? It's every darn one of the wealthy "political leaders" that is at fault. Heck, they have their freebies, benefits, etc. that the American taxpayer has to foot the bill for.

I second that - FREEZE Executive and Legislative branch pay, until they actually do something productive!!

An elected official is elected to serve the people to perform a job. During the course of employment pay them. When they are fired, by the people they work for (us) it is the end of employment contract. A terminated government servant doesn't pension. That might "save" the 2% Starting now, not ten years from now, NOW.

Jack Welch-CEO of GE and like him in 1980s started build production plants in China and other developing countries. They was so successfull, that even Bill Clinton in December of 1993 signed NAFTA (with support from both parties).
When outsourcing became a problems to boom economy both parties agrees to decrease limits on income to buy new house. Yes, it temporary helps economy and create housing problems in 2006. Both parties support slogan: "To big to fail", it means that at least leaders understand real reason for our economical problems.
Keynessian and Austrian schools of economy are good if most of producers and consumers are living in one country.
Bush's, Obama's, european's countries administration badly tried stimulus, austerity, debt ceiling, etc, and failed to help economy. When most producers of most prosducts in stores are in developing countries all of this help create jobs in developing countries, where workforces are ten times cheaper.
BOTH PARTIES MUST CHANGE THEIR ADVISERS IN ECONOMY.

The RepubliCONS need to be retired to pasture. Let's face it the "Grand OLD Party" is simply that: old and decrepit, minds are feeble, mass alzheimers has set in. We need a new, fresh, open minded party to work with Democrats.
The RepubliCONS have ruined this country.

This isn't even a real question. If you think anyone besides Obama is responsible for the 'sequester' than you're ignorant and incredibly miss-informed

Obama isnt accountable for anything.

you dont like the way he constantly uses fear mongering as a tactic? you dont like the way it seems he is perpetually campaigning instead of governing? you dont like the fact that the leader of the free world is no longer an American?

oh well. when you have a nation full of children, expect Santa Claus to be your king.

Ben Bernanke is printing $85,000,000,000 every single month in his third attempt to stimulate the economy and prop up the stock market, with QE3.

funny how nobody even blinks while this stuff goes on, yet the president has fear mongered to the point of turning us all into 'preppers' with this sequestration, which is also 85 billion dollars.

i do not trust the president or this administration at all.

Petition for pay cuts for congress and president along with the rest of public employees (something we all agree on, right?)-

http://pac.signon.org/sign/paycuts%2Dfor%2Dcongress%2D1?source=mo&id=63631-534487-BFGCL7x

This whole scenario was a White House ploy. nother of Obama's teflon moves. The Illinois Democratic Party Playbook has been brought to Washington. Build a base of dependent people and assure election. Ben Franklin had it right. To paraphraseto A democracy will last until the elected realize they can bribe the voters.

@Justin: I said start with the Wall Street Journal. My premise is the same and I am not being hypocritical. The Patch needs to look at more sources before they publish articles like this...or they should call them by their proper name "editorials".

You know if the democrats are just so, so bad, I wonder how it is that they won the presidency, the senate, and would have won the house without all of the gerrymandering that took place (dems won the popular vote in house elections). Oh of course, there are way more takers than makers. But then how do you explain that it's the red voting states that take a majority of federal money? And how do you explain that Obama won seven or eight of the ten wealthiest counties in the country? How did Obama win the demographic of those with doctoral degrees or post-docs? Just how did Obama beat Mitt by so many votes?

They are both equally responsible. Sequester their pay and then you would see some action. This is no way to run a country, except into the ground.

Obama is whining that our children will go hungry if we cut his budget, Yet we read elsewhere that John Kerry is out spending old and new billions on foreign friends and foes. It's especially galling that we are borrowing a trillion from the Chinese with interest and then giving them aid for free.

We put our lives in the hands of elected officials and they turn everything into a pissing match. They quickly forget their election promises and resume their personal agendas and ego-driven "legacies".

Sequester - just another big lie. Obama and Napolitano refuse to take responsibility for releasing detained, criminal, illegal immigrants. Yet the Chiefs of Police or Sheriffs don't have the authority to simply release criminal suspects in custody without approval of a judge. Chicken little and stupid American's will follow this moron right off the cliff.

Brian...you have drunk too much kool aide my friend, BLAMING somene is wrong, this is the RIGHT thing for our country, 85 billion in cuts over the next 6 months is NOTHING!!!!!! So no one is to blame, it's forcing our wasteful government to cut spending

It's 2 cents out of a dollar - If the President was a Communist there wouldn't be anyone getting a free cell phone or an EBT card without doing some work for it. So stop calling him Communist you don't know what you're talking about, he's a socialist and a very rich one at that.

The people to blame for sequestration are those that put the current administration in office, that is, the voter. We all knew what is was and the consequences and some voters still voted in favor of it. We have ourselves to blame!

Who's to blame? Perhaps the American people for electing such imbeciles to Congress.

Truth is that all in Senate and House failed along with the Pres. They were all elected by us, the citizens of the U.S. to govern and they are not fulfilling their jobs; if they were in the private sector, they would be fired. So maybe they all have to go and new people who will remember what it is like on our side of the fence take their places. Cut out special interest spending on stupid things that only benefit a few; police the cheating and handouts such as welfare payments to those who really don't qualify but cheat and lie to receive benefits along with social security cheating, etc. Stop giving money, weapons and war planes to countries such a Saudi Arabia; do they really need us to fund them with all the oil money they have there? Lots of places to cut spending without hurting the military, schoolsand middle class but someone needs to be reasonable and so far, that is beyond our elected representative's capabilities.

Again I get my weekly entertainment listening to all you boorish morons complaining about barry obongo and his lack of leadership. I atleast can say I didn't vote for this communist ,"You " can't say the same.The Patch is like a magnet for you uninformed daily viewers.

I find it fascinating, Bush proposes massive tax cuts, and a republican congress passes them. Then we get into two wars, all on the credit card. More than $2T of spending without any revenue to pay. No war tax, nothing. And now the republicans clamor there is a spending problem. They refuse to cut any tax loopholes for big corporations and only want to cut "entitlement programs". So ultimately the wars get paid for by cuts to social security and medicare and taxes stay low.

If the congress would cut their entitlements of health care and lavish pensions I might be inclined to support their "cut only" position.

Both Republicans and Democrats -- House more than Senate. Everyone is looking short term -- what to do right now. But we have a long term problem. And refusing to talk about one issue (increased revenue) or another (entitlements) is not going to solve the long term problem.
No one, save Obama, is talking about investing in the future. No one, save Obama, is talking about a balanced approach. Investment will provide growth in job opportunities and will put the nation on a sustainable path moving forward. It may cost more now, but that is the nature of investment. A balanced approach is needed to make this happen to ensure a future for our children and grandchildren.

Representatives: Stop campaigning for the next election and the special interest groups and start acting on behalf of the people of your nation.

Problem solver has been hired:

Obama's New Budget Chief Works at Walmart

The question is largely pointless: both sides wanted the sequester to begin because they would not accept the alternative the other side required. Pres. Obama would not accept the Republicans' version of cuts--now he will not accept the "flexibility" they would give him. The Republicans would not agree to "tax reform" or infrastructure investments that were Obama's conditions for a compromise.

What will happen is that the amount of cuts required by the sequester will continue; the composition of the agencies and areas required to cut will be gradually modified. It's hardly a tragedy; if the economy goes back into recession all will be blamed, but this won't really be the cause.

It really doesn't matter who is to blame. It is criminal to scare the public into thinking the sky will fall if the cuts go through, but I have stopped trying to understand why the American people would put Obama in office again. It is clear that he wants to raise taxes on everyone and create a socialist welfare state. People get stuff for free what is to stop them from wanting that. Common sense for all of us means that when you don't have enough money to pay your bills you stop spending. We do it every day in our own lives and businesses. And don't get me started on the fraud and waste in government...

There's just too much partisan politics going on. Reps say it is all Obama and the Dems who are to blame. Dems say it's the Reps in Congress that are to blame. Believe me, there is plenty of blame to go around. In the meantime, ALL Americans are suffering from the inaction.

Time to lock Obama, Senators, and Representatives in one room and not let them out until a realistic plan is reached. No food, no bathroom breaks, but plenty of water.

Hey Danny- you should love this!

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/03/04/end-times-radio-host-believes-obama-may-be-antichrist-and-may-declare-himself-god/

Obama is bankrupting this country with those who put him in office
they send f 16 , 200 abrams tanks and 100 of millions of tax money to egypt
plus 100 of millions in military equipment
all free of charge
obama is guilty of destroying middle class and expanding welfare state
shame on democrats and liberals ,

No more White House tours because of the sequester.
WH throws Napolitano under the bus for releasing criminal immigrants because of sequester.
OMG there are going to be long lines at the airport due to TSA cutbacks - didn't happen.
The economy is going to stop - Dow hits all time high.
Senate (Democrats) kill a proposal to eliminate a $700M Senate slush fund.
OBAMA scare tactics and stupidity seem to go hand in hand.

Blame? What blame? It is great. Ten sequesters would be better. The spenders are going to bleed the nation dry if allowed to do so. So then EVERYONE will be poor. Great. Who can I resent and be jealous of then?

Blame? By even asking the question in those terms, you assume and proclaim that it is a bad thing. Whomever thought it up is brilliant and should be commended.

You all are responsible!
You voted for some of these egomaniacs that got elected.

Only two things conservatives are good for, making people afraid of things and placing blame.