[Opinionated Blowhard]

If it means spending $3.7 trillion a year and borrowing over a trillion of it, I'd rather have a meaningless patent office. Your question is a false choice. We can easily cut $85 billion. They are not zeroing out the patent office. If Obama did the cuts in a reasonable way, no one would feel anything other than a minor inconvenience.

[muawiyah]

nobody you now will feel anything anyway. in my neighborhood we’ll probably have half a dozen bankruptcies and as the HOA president I’ll have some serious paper work to do when that happens.