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There is a difficult leap between talking about balancing the budget and actually doing it.

The budget is not just a collection of numbers, but an expression of our values and aspirations.

The cold harsh reality is that we have to balance the budget.

A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.

If you are spending too much, you cut back on spending and you raise your revenues. And that's it.

By necessity, budgets require hard choices.

Manage your spending by creating and sticking to a budget.

What you don't do, if you're an adult, is decide that you're going to budget things through a sequester. What does that word have to do with budgeting? It's like if you have a family budget and go, 'We really don't know what to take out economically from the budget, so we're going to whack out protein for this week.'

Sometimes you have to make tough decisions to hold the line on spending.