I hope not, because i don't want my military career going down the drain.

The spending cuts won't affect military payment, social security or Medicare. This means that all nonessential federal programs will be affected, along with some infrastructure. In my state, I know that educational is taking a huge blow, but -- because of our conservative governor -- the money lost is being taken away from programs that only help a small portion of the population, namely the poor. I'm actually pretty excited for this. A 5% reduction in spending, across the board, is going to be nice. This next fiscal cliff will (hopefully) force an even deeper set of cuts, mostly in social spending. Whether people realize it or not, this is going to happen in the future if we don't face it now. And I assure you that, when we're a hundred trillion dollars deeper, it's going to be much more difficult. God bless the Republicans for making a stand.

Anyone with a bit of sense ought to be unanimously against sequestering the budget.

Were still in a recession

I hope not. The current batch of legislators have proven time and again that they value party over country. We need to vote all of them out, no exceptions, and replace them with people who know that they could lose their job at any second.