To kick things off, how the fuck did we get 4 months into 2011 without having a budget planned out for this year. This seems horribly short sighted on Congress's part and seems like it could be easily avoided by, oh idk... planning ahead by 2-3 years? And that's at a minimum. I mean, obviously they wouldn't be able to account for everything 2-3+ years in advance, but they could at least have some groundwork laid down so something like this doesn't happen.

I mean it just seems so ridiculous that we got to this point and I don't understand how more people aren't pissed off about this. Granted, I don't know what will happen/has happened as a result of this, but that's fucking atrocious that they can't even settle a budget.