A Gwinnett County demonstration took direct aim at Congress, demanding that the pending sequester is not the answer to the country's problems.

Protestors want Congress to look elsewhere to save money.

"Let's tell Congress and our state legislators that enough is enough," shouted Donna Aker, President of the Gwinnett County Teachers Association. 

"Let's furlough them. Let's cut their salaries and let's make them work with less."

The demonstrators, who rallied outside the Gwinnett Judicial Center, say the government can save a lot more money by closing corporate tax loopholes and ending corporate tax subsidies than by the sequesters across the board budget cuts.

The sequester is projected to save about $85 billion.  The rally's organizer says closing the loopholes and ending the subsidies will save approximately $200 billion annually.

"We should close corporate tax loopholes rather than making cuts that will layoff teachers, police officers and firefighters," says Jason Pfeifle, of Georgia FairShare.

He says corporation use havens, like the Cayman Islands, as ways of avoiding paying federal taxes.

There is no corporate income tax in the Cayman Islands.

He spoke of General Electric, which reports billions of dollars in profits but, according to Pfeifle, "paid not one dime in federal taxes."

Aker, who is a teacher in Gwinnett, warned of the impact of the sequester on Georgia's schools, saying it would mean a loss of teaching services to about 5% of the state's students. 

That, according to Aker, equals 54,000 children.

The protestors, following the rally, delivered a petition to the office of Congressman Rob Woodall, calling for a solution that does not include sequestration.

The sequester deadline is this coming Friday, March 1.