Sequester me. Please.

So everyone (both sides of aisle) are worried about the “sequester”.  Both are pointing the finger at each other.  Both accuse the other of not doing anything to stop it.

Well, they are both at fault.  And I for one, may be glad.  Hear me out.

I am not sure the right and the left could ever get together to trim the budget as deeply as this so-called sequester is going to do.  Sure, there are going to be programs slashed that we need.  And there are going to be people laid off and families disadvantaged until all the dust settles and we can figure a way around it— but guess what?  It is the medicine we must take.

We got ourselves in this mess by spending, spending, spending and cutting taxes over and over and over again.  It doesn’t work that way folks.  If you spend it, you’ve got to have it. And if you don’t you go into debt. And that debt builds up faster and faster with interest until you are in the shape we, as a country are in.

So the sequester is going to force us to make harsh decisions on what is vital and important in our country and what is superfluous. And we will not all agree on those things.

But here are two tings we HAVE to agree on. If you want to add programs and pork barrel projects back into the budget, you have to add revenue. And to add revenue you have to raise taxes.

Talk about unpopular, but that is the tough medicine we must take to trim our fat and get our country back to solvency.  It’s funny, I have never agreed with much of anything Speaker of the House Boehner has ever said, but this I do agree with. “The sequester has forced us into facing the real tough facts of life head on.” He’s right.  Now what we do about them is the measure of a smart and strong nation.

This is about cutting spending. It is also about increasing revenues. We have to do both.