You Can't Make This Stuff Up...

Since almost all of our politicians are cowards who are unwilling to make the hard and unpopular choices that we elect them to make, President Obama created a presidential commission on how to reduce the budget deficit.

Here's a shocker. The retired politicians and bureaucrats who make up the commission think they need more money and more staff. That's right, Taxprof Blog reports that 4 full time salaries and $500,000 (so in other words, around a million dollars) isn't enough to produce a report in 130 work days (six and a half months.)

That the first major request from the deficit reduction commission is for more money should tell everyone all they know about how serious an effort this is.