If you are a habitual observer of the budget process and Congress, you've seen this scenario again, and again - and again....and again. The Great Prevaricator start the extra cookie routine and spent, spent, spent, on "fat free" military spending, along with the country's regular diet of entitlements, corporate welfare, mass incarceration scams [we've had at least 4 of those with no positive effect on crime] and pork barrel spending. Bush and Clinton just added their own personal touches to this self deluding effort to soothe the electorate while continuing the spending splurges for their favorite contributors.
Your friend/relative has just adopted the "Couch Potato" resolution with its appropriate timetable - delaying the hard work and sacrifice. Congress has just done the same with its "balanced" budget plan - which conveniently adds up more debt as they use dedicated revenue funds to balance [a practice not allowed by Generally Accepted Accounting Principles for any other governmental entity, BTW - but you'll never hear this from "respectable" accountants]. And the commercial media still ponder why the general public is still skeptical of this "historic" agreement.
