Politics: So we have a budget. Sorta of.

After days of wrangling and arm twisting, Congress was able to put together a temporary budget measure that keeps the US Government running through September of this year, along with a temporary provision to fund the government while the deal is written into law.

A "whopping" $38.5b in spending was cut from this budget.  Nowhere near the number needed to make any meaningful impact on the deficit, but who gives a shit about that?  It's all merely symbolism.  I mean, I was really hoping the gov't would have closed.  All those hundreds of thousands of gov't employees, laid off!  Music to my ears!

While this data is just over a year old, it shows that government employees out earn private sector employees in most employment categories.  And let's be real:  they have a history, nay, a tradition for being lazy, incompetent & otherwise useless individuals.  Their pay has increased at levels that would put corporate America to shame!  In this time of huge deficits, not only do we need federal employees to make less, we need less of them!

Back to the budget:  The Republicans did want a lot more cut in order to reach a budget deal.  People like Rand Paul and Paul Ryan have the right idea....the cuts need to be HUGE in size & scope.  ALL departments within the Federal Government need cuts, and some need to be outright eliminated, like the Department of Education  and the Department of Commerce (sorry, pop ups on that last link).

Seriously folks, deep, serious cuts need to be made, and made now.  Who's willing to do the right thing?  It doesn't seem that Congress or Obama are.