yes, as a result of not being able to agree on how to raise revenue, or make decreases in which expenditures, or both, either side claiming the moral high ground with other peoples money. Every recipient program will claim it is lean, or needy, or indispensible. Agreed, some fit the description better than others. Way too many, not at all.


should we start our own list of biased expenditures that we want their budgets:

protected or increased: National Park Service

decreased: everything else