Seriously, though: equating household budgets to federal budgets is akin to equating military budgets to house league hockey budgets (or little league baseball budgets, for you Americans).
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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