“Fiscally speaking, what’s $61B anyway? It just means rather than rolling up that next trillion in debt in 90 days, it will now only take 80 days. Big Whoop.”
It’s that kind of incremental thinking that got us where we are today, fiscally speaking. No amount of spending in a bill is ever a big deal compared to the unfathomably huge deficit, but that doesn’t make it unimportant.
Pretty soon you’re talking about real money.