The failure to work out sensible budgets makes it impossible for government agencies to make long-term plans, and instead leaves them scrambling to spend money in the short term.
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What's the point of creating a budget if it's not possible to follow through?
We can't let government make long-term commitments that it may not be able to keep.
A one-year budget doesn't mean the government won't last, and a two-year budget doesn't mean it will.
The budget doesn't have much control over the government. Then again, the government doesn't have much control over the budget.
By necessity, budgets require hard choices.
When a president promises something beyond his years in office, he is fundamentally unaccountable. It is not his budget that must finish the job. Another president inherits the problem, and it becomes a ball too easily dropped, a plan too easily abandoned, a dream too readily deferred.
A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.
There is a difficult leap between talking about balancing the budget and actually doing it.
The right way to deal with a budget problem that was years in the making is by formulating a credible plan to reduce the deficit over time and as the economy is able to withstand the necessary fiscal belt-tightening. That is what President Obama is doing.
The reason we have such a reform budget is because we've been thinking about these things for a long time.
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