For those posting who are constitutionally illiterate, the executive can only propose a budget. Most of the graft, waste, and pork-barrel spending that bedevils the budgetary process takes place in the House Ways and Means Committee, and on the floors of both chambers of Congress, when the budget is released for congressional review, modifying proposals, and greed-based tampering.
THAT'S when the government's lackeys run naked through the budget while holding fist-fulls of our cash. Sans a line-item veto to rein in all the greed in a budget more than a thousand pages long, the President, whether Republican or Democrat, has little choice except to veto the entire thing or sign it.
Given the fact that it takes a full year to draw up a budget, most presidents simply sign it into law.
Blame the budgetary woes on those most responsible.
