Who is behind Fix the Debt? Who is financing it? What are their goals?
Why does Fix the Debt seem to focus on cutting Social Security and Medicare so much?
Is it a coincidence that business interests support Fix the Debt and that they focus on social service cuts rather than massive subsidies to business?
This is not bipartisanship and this is not a serious approach to solving our long term deficit problems without leaving the most vulnerable behind.

Wall Street billionaire Pete Peterson is scheming to "Fix the Debt,"
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Portal:Fix_the_Debt

Pete Peterson's Long History of Deficit Scaremongering
http://www.thenation.com/article/173020/pete-petersons-long-history-deficit-scaremongering#

"There is no plausible story whereby private demand would increase if the deficit were to shrink. Over a longer term, we can look to have net exports fill this hole in demand as the trade deficit moves closer to balance. But that will not happen tomorrow, and the process will not be hastened to any substantial degree by a lower budget deficit.

This means the people who want to reduce current deficits want slower growth and higher unemployment. They may not know it, but that is the implication of their position taken to its logical conclusion. This makes it indefensible; if someone spreads gasoline all over a barn and tosses a lit match on it without understanding the implications, it hardly affects the outcome."

http://www.nationofchange.org/fix-debt-s-fuzzy-math-1361543982

Seamus, the problem is that everyone knows we have to cut costs in federal spending. The problem is that the problem is so vast that it's gotten to the point that no one knows where to begin. There seem to be so many OBVIOUS cuts that are being overlooked! Things like billions of dollars to aircraft that are proven failures, bridges to nowhere, bloated Congressional salary packages, and such. The complaints above are not so much "ooo, if you cut that, you'll hurt the poor and elderly", but more "Is THAT where you want to start?" I agree that you need to start cutting, but you need to go after things that are bloated, not things that actually have some use. Save those for last.

The dollar amount of the sequestration is such a miniscule percentage of the federal budget that its impact on overall federal spending will be negligible. Let it happen!

How broke are we? The total value of all residential property in the US in 2012 was estimated at 18.6 trillion. We owe around 17 trillion. Think about it.