Not going to watch the video, but I’ve often thought that a better way to do things would be to start the fiscal year by passing a budget that is 90% of the previous year’s budget. Then they could spend the rest of the year haggling over the last 10%—more or less. That way, if they did it right, there would be less danger of a government shutdown, and the fiscal soundness or unsoundness of the remaining details might be more obvious.
I would even more prefer, during times like these, that there be no automatic spending increases, and the government decides on a simple 1% cut across the board. Families have to make such decisions during tough times. Their government should, too.
1%!!??? No, balance the budget now! They don’t want to and they know it.
It’s a Solzhenitsyn moment in which we know they’re lying, they know they’re lying, and they even know that we know they’re lying. And they still don’t care. No shame, no morality, nothing but contempt for everyone but themselves.