No, the US budget is set by having a symbolic representation of the country pummel an inflatable dummy until something unspecified happens. This may perhaps explain why budgets tend to be so late and so misshapen.
Sep 15, 2011
Hello, Baby! This Is the Budget Bopper Speaking! Am I What?
Martin Kozlowski, 9/13/11:
The US budgeting process does not involve political in-fighting, or the battle of competing ideologies of governance, or even a bunch of hacks each trying to drag as much loot back to their home districts as possible.
No, the US budget is set by having a symbolic representation of the country pummel an inflatable dummy until something unspecified happens. This may perhaps explain why budgets tend to be so late and so misshapen.
No, the US budget is set by having a symbolic representation of the country pummel an inflatable dummy until something unspecified happens. This may perhaps explain why budgets tend to be so late and so misshapen.
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