Lets get one thing perfectly clear: The government in no way, shape or form "cuts" anything. All it does is a marginal reduction after a tremendous increase in spending, if it does that at all.

For instance, if a program had 30 billion spent on it one year and was "budgeted" to have 35 billion spent on it, but then "only" got 33 million spent on it, it'd be a "budget cut." The propagandists would say that was a 40 percent "cut" (2 out of 5) in reality it was a 10 percent INCREASE in the allotted budget (33/30).

Right now sequestration is widely loathed by people collecting government welfare, whether that be in checks from an unconstitutional form of busywork and bureaucratic meddling or just outright welfare goodies.

If the budget went down 40 billion dollars that would be 40 billion out of 3.8 TRILLION. That would be 1/95th of a budget reduction. You wouldn't notice in almost any other type of life interaction. Imagine the budget as a pie. If you got a slice of pie 1/95th what it used to normally be, you couldn't tell.

But wait a minute...

What was the budget in 2008?
2.9 trillion.
What was just passed for this year's budget?
3.8 trillion!

So where is the cut? The overall budget increased by over 900 billion dollars, about a good 30 percent, in 5 years!

So is this a budget cut or a "budget cut?"