Michael Kelly Mort Kondracke Ch. Whoops, sorry about that. My forehead hit the keyboard while I was reading President Bush's proposed budget, and I passed out from boredom. Actually, I'm kidding, I wasn't reading the budget. I was just thinking about it, which was enough to make me face-plant.
Truth be told, almost nobody reads the whole budget.
It makes the Manhattan phone book look small. Worse, it makes the Manhattan phone book look like action-packed beach reading. More to the point, it's impossible to know what's going on. Of course, I wasn't the first one to discover this. The budget is, at best, a plan taken from a bunch of sketches of a constantly moving economic scene.