Honestly, these people.

Anyway, in case you’re interested and live in Illinois, here is theWhite House’s best guess (PDF) about how and where the latest fabricated-but-fatal crisis will screw you (if you live elsewhere, here is a link to a link to the whole list):

ILLINOIS IMPACTS

If sequestration were to take effect,
some examples of the impacts on Illinois this year alone are:

• Teachers and Schools: Illinois will
  lose approximately $33.4 million in funding for primary and secondary education, putting around 460
  teacher and aide jobs at risk. In addition about 39,000 fewer students would be served and
  approximately120 fewer schools would receive funding.

• Education for Children with
  Disabilities: In addition, Illinois will lose approximately $24.7 million in funds for about 300
  teachers, aides, and staff who help children with disabilities.

• Work-Study Jobs: Around 3,280 fewer low
  income students in Illinois would receive aid to help them finance the costs of college and
  around 2,650 fewer students will get work-study jobs that help them pay for college.

• Head Start: Head Start and Early Head
  Start services would be eliminated for approximately 2,700 children in Illinois, reducing
  access to critical early education.

• Protections for Clean Air and Clean
  Water: Illinois would lose about $6.4 million in environmental funding to ensure clean
  water and air quality, as well as prevent pollution from pesticides and hazardous waste. In
  addition, Illinois could lose another $974,000 in grants for fish and wildlife protection.

• Military Readiness: In Illinois,
  approximately 14,000 civilian Department of Defense employees would be furloughed, reducing gross pay
  by around $83.5 million in total.

• Army: Base operation funding would be
  cut by about $19 million in Illinois.
• Air Force: Funding for Air Force
  operations in Illinois would be cut by about $7 million.
• Navy: Four planned Naval Station
  Great Lakes demolition projects ($2 million) could be canceled and a scheduled Blue Angels show in
  Rockford could be canceled.

• Law Enforcement and Public Safety Funds
  for Crime Prevention and Prosecution: Illinois will lose about $587,000 in Justice
  Assistance Grants that support law enforcement, prosecution and courts, crime prevention and
  education, corrections and community corrections, drug treatment and enforcement, and crime victim and
  witness initiatives.

• Job Search Assistance to Help those in
  Illinois find Employment and Training: Illinois will lose about $1.4 million in funding for
  job search assistance, referral, and placement, meaning around 50,780 fewer people will get the
  help and skills they need to find employment.

• Child Care: Up to 1,100 disadvantaged
  and vulnerable children could lose access to child care, which is also essential for working
  parents to hold down a job.

• Vaccines for Children: In Illinois
  around 5,230 fewer children will receive vaccines for diseases such as measles, mumps, rubella,
  tetanus, whooping cough, influenza, and Hepatitis B due to reduced funding for vaccinations of
  about $357,000.

• Public Health: Illinois will lose
  approximately $968,000 in funds to help upgrade its ability to respond to public health threats
  including infectious diseases, natural disasters, and biological, chemical, nuclear, and radiological
  events. In addition, Illinois will lose about $3.5 million in grants to help prevent and treat
  substance abuse, resulting in around 3,900 fewer admissions to substance abuse programs. And the
  Illinois State Department of Public Health will lose about $186,000 resulting in around 4,600
  fewer HIV tests.

• STOP Violence Against Women Program:
  Illinois could lose up to $273,000 in funds that provide services to victims of domestic
  violence, resulting in up to 1,000 fewer victims being served.

• Nutrition Assistance for Seniors:
  Illinois would lose approximately $764,000 in funds that provide meals for seniors.

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