Earlier this month, I had the honor of attending a State of the Union address for the very first time. Amid all the pomp and circumstance of the occasion, President Barack Obama had a golden opportunity to propose an alternative to the coming sequestration cuts. Once a proponent of sequestration, the president has become critical of the coming cuts in recent months; yet despite his criticism, he has failed to offer any plan to replace the impending sequester with other spending reductions that we so desperately need.