There's only one day better than Christmas, and that's budget day. That's right, today, the day President Bush sends his massively flawed multi-trillion dollar budget for Congress to further pack with their own countless earmarks and then approve practically unanimously, flooding patrons and pet projects with untold federal dollars. Hooray!
This years budget, which the President assures us is the very model of fiscal restraint and measured miserlyness, weighs in at a mere $3.1 trillion dollars, which, in case you're wondering, is more money mere mortals dwelling outside the walls of the magical realm of Congress can even fathom. And it's not even done yet! But don't let the massive size of the budget and the frequent use of words like "entitlement" and "discretionary" fool you: we're up to our eyeballs in debt
Not a penny of this budget is actually coming from every penny the government spends this year will be coming from the pockets of shrewd lenders in China, Saudi Arabia and Israel, you know, our good buds who are always there to make sure America never goes without a meal. Thanks foreign banks who invest heavily in US Treasury Bonds! To indulge in some culturally relevant metaphor: you guys are the wealthy absent father enabling of father we never had. We're going to go ahead and charge this next binge, too. We know you won't mind.
