Press Talk: Son of Fiscal Cliff is here!

Category: Word Press

I was hanging in the newsroom (what, you thought I should be sipping a cup of joe at Latte Da?) when we started yacking about this sequester thing.

First, what the heck is up with the word "sequester," anyway?

Originally, sequester was a legal term referring to the act of valuable property being taken into custody by the court.

The court would do this because of some dispute over ownership. Sequestration would keep it safe until the dispute was resolved.

Congress decided to hijack the term for this neat little procedure we're going through now.

In other words, "we're sequestering all this money until the dispute of spending and taxes gets resolved."

And to add a little cream to your latte if it doesn't get resolved, automatic cuts go into place.

The newsroom discussion centered on why the heck we're using the word "sequester" in the first place. So we searched for a better term.

One reporter hit a home run.

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Press Talk: Son of Fiscal Cliff is here!

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