Oh... and RE: Government blowing smoke up you ass by extending the amount of time to make themselves look good?
"A report released Wednesday by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office suggested that the deal cuts a measly $352 million from spending in the current fiscal year, not $38.5 billion. The main reason for the discrepancy, according to the CBO: Many of the cuts involve money that wasn’t going to be spent this year anyway."
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2011/0414/Congress-passes-spending-bill-amid-doubts.-How-much-does-it-actually-cut
sooo. yeah. (By the way, ignore what CS stands for. They're actually basically non religious, they were just funded by a religious person with the only condition being they report on one religious story a day.)
Well.. that and it being named what it is.
