If you were paying attention during the battle over the sequester, you remember the apocalyptic warnings. Democrats claimed that if Republicans went ahead with the measure - which was invented and pushed by Obama's White House - federal employment numbers would be decimated. This, they said, would thrill GOP membership, because they hate the poor, downtrodden, underpaid and overworked federal machine. If the left was to be believed, permanent job cuts would mandate the firing of thousands of government employees who would then wander the streets, participating in underground, winner-gets-a-bowl-of soup bumfights in order to survive.
