[Gaffer]

When DC doesn’t get even its projected INCREASE, they call it ‘draconian.’

That word, whoever and whichever effing ghoul thought it up, should have trademarked it or something. These a$$holes use it any time a Republican tries to control costs.

I doubt they even know the origin of the word and got it from some dame game they were playing on the computer pretending to be working.

[NohSpinZone]

Great point. The absolute evil of “baseline budgeting” where a cut in the projected INCREASE in spending is considered a cut in general.

[ichabod1]

Draco (/ˈdreɪkoʊ/; Greek: Δράκων, Drakōn; fl. c. 7th century BC) was the first recorded legislator of Athens in Ancient Greece. He replaced the prevailing system of oral law and blood feud by a written code to be enforced only by a court. Doesn't sound so bad to me.