> When you pass a bill requiring the president to do something there is no requirement to justify how anything the bill will be paid for.
It could well be that pretty much everyone outside the USA is reading that description - and indeed the rest of this thread - and thinking "sorry, but in this instance the US system is broken".
> Business works very similar to this as well. Divisions are given budgets to spend but those budgets aren't in lock-step with revenue.
Umm, if revenue falls during a financial period, would corporate budgets not be adjusted? A division claiming "you handed us the budget, we're damn well going to spend it to the last cent, up to the CFO to figure out how to finance it" isn't exactly best practice.
It could well be that pretty much everyone outside the USA is reading that description - and indeed the rest of this thread - and thinking "sorry, but in this instance the US system is broken".
> Business works very similar to this as well. Divisions are given budgets to spend but those budgets aren't in lock-step with revenue.
Umm, if revenue falls during a financial period, would corporate budgets not be adjusted? A division claiming "you handed us the budget, we're damn well going to spend it to the last cent, up to the CFO to figure out how to finance it" isn't exactly best practice.