Another 37 Billion $ down the drain.

[N2RJ]

Which doesn't change my main point: We purportedly need to slash the social safety net programs, which in totality are less than a single DoD boondoggle program.

It actually does. You are trying to frame welfare spending as an insignificant piece of the pie. It's not.

The sequester was a $90 billion cut to the increase in spending, spread out across the federal budget. The President seems to think that it spells doom for the country. Yet $78 billion in food stamps plus how much else for social programs is insignificant?