Due to the asinine game called "baseline budgeting" which the Democrats instituted years ago, a 12% increase in a given departemnt may be called a 3% cut if they said they expected a 15% increase.

If businessmen were as dishonest as the Federal goverment with money matters, they would be in prison.

This Fiscal Cliff issue is a piece of theater and anyone who takes it at face value, as presented by the Washington Compost and the New York Slimes, both house organs of the Democrats, is either and extreme partisan or a fool.