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The Sequester Shocker

Remember only a month back when federal officials issued dire warnings of drastic cutbacks should the sequester budget stand? President Barack Obama predicted that belt tightening of up to $85 billion in 2013 would force brutal and devastating shutdowns of programs related to everything from vaccination to school lunches. The director of the National Zoo even told the Washington Post he feared he might have to shut down popular exhibits featuring lions and tigers.

Reporting from the suddenly mean streets of Washington, D.C., Reason TV’s Kennedy finds few members of the public impacted in the slightest by the sequester, and most of them agreeing that the federal budget needed a 2 percent trim.

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