[Senator_Blutarski]

This is just like dealing with your local school district: If they don't get the budget money they want they get revenge by making cuts in the most painful ways.

This is shameful. And why doesn't the media point out that Obama could eliminate the education and energy departments and no one would notice?

[Zeppo]

This is just like dealing with your local school district: If they don't get the budget money they want they get revenge by making cuts in the most painful ways.

Exactly.

Instead of cutting back on administrative bloat and excess, the government idiots' first impulse is "let's cut recess"...