The National Science Foundation is now closed. So is the Environmental Protection Agency. Federal funds for the clean-up of "Superfund Sites" have dried up, as of now. The same can be said for the clean-up of leaking under-ground storage tanks. No more clean-water fund. And Federal grants for scientific research? History! While I'm at it, I might as well close down the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities, as well. Their budgets are "only" a bit more than a hundred million bucks apiece, but I'll take the savings where I can get it.
At first, I was horrified at the fact that I had to close down so much of the US Government, in order to balance the Federal budget. Now, I'm just irritated! I want to launch into a vitriolic rant, lambasting Congress and the last several Presidential Administrations for spending us into the poor-house, as they've done. But ranting won't do any good. Nothing will do any good. What's done is done, and generations of Americans will have to pay the price for our Government's irresponsibility.
The American people just don't realize what kind of horrible financial mess we're in. They've been promised so much for so long, that they just can't believe that the financial foundations of our Republic are crumbling. In real life, I don't know what the outcome will be, but I'm sure it will involve as much wailing and gnashing of teeth as I've exhibited, myself, during this budget-cutting fiasco. In fact, I'm sure that, when reality hits, my own hypothetical agony will be far surpassed by the real agony that lies before us all.
That's $14.0 billion saved, which leaves me with $73.9 billion left to cut. What's next?