Efficiency

I have heard people say that the failure of the United States Senate to pass a budget in the last thousand days is a failure of leadership on the part of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev).

Nonsense. Senator Reid, being a longtime Washington, D.C., fixture, knows that government budgets are meaningless. Spending can be shifted from one budgetary year to the next by simply moving it ahead one day and thus charging it to next year's budget. It can be moved "off budget" completely and not counted against a year's expenditures. Senator Reid is simply eliminating the middleman of pretending the government has a plan on how it spends money and going straight to the spending because he knows any claims that the government will spend money the way it says it will spend it are a sham.

And Senator Reid knows shams, having used the word "leader" in his job titles for the last seven years -- first as Senate Minority Leader from 2005-2007 and as Senate Majority Leader beginning in 2007 -- while never actually displaying any leadership.