The purpose of government is to provide basic life necessities and for the common defense. It's time this country faces reality and sequestration is not the solution.   If we keep up sequestration at this rate we are not going to be able to doing those things which government was intended to do.  What needs to happen is that instead of cutting necessary services by percentages every quarter across the board those programs out there that are "unnecessary" need to be cut all together.  Period.  What that takes is guts because someone's pet project is not going to get funded.  I say find your guts and just say "no" and cut these wasteful and unnecessary federal programs instead of this across the board stuff. Instead of fighting amoung ourselves, the Republican activist and News need to be doing across this country is exposing these programs to the whole country and the voters and putting pressure on the Congress to end the waste.