Baseline Budgeting: An Introduction to Government Accounting

I was originally planning on starting a post on the failure of the so-called "Super Committee" to come to an agreement, but a major point of that article will depends on understanding how Washington keeps its books.  Anyone who looks closely at Washington will see that our government does a lot of things in ways that no sane person would consider, and naturally, spending money is one of them.

Why I Started This Blog

There's a quote, often attributed to Winston Churchill, that states, "If you are not a liberal at twenty, you have no heart and if you are not conservative at thirty, you have no brain."  If you subscribe to this standard, I was heartless from Middle School until I reached the age that the brain takes over.