In his speech tonight, President Obama presents an alternative to the upcoming sequester, the automatic spending cuts that go into effect on March 1. ---------------------------------------------------------- Now we need to finish the job.  And the question is, how?   In 2011, Congress passed a law saying that if both parties couldn’t agree on a plan to reach our deficit goal, about a trillion dollars’ worth of budget cuts would automatically go into effect this year.  These sudden, harsh, arbitrary cuts would jeopardize our military readiness.  They’d ... Read More