Does Austerity Kill? A Look at 17,679 Things the Federal Government Has Done Since Sequestration.
22nd September 2013
‘Austerity’ is government-speak for ‘forced to use silver utensils rather than gold’.
To help understand what American austerity really looks like in 2013, we’ve helpfully listed the 17,000+ entries from the Federal Register (“The Daily Journal of the United States Government”) since sequestration took effect on March 1, 2013.
Not everything on the list is wasteful, of course. But is this a snapshot of a government cut to the bone?