The US elects a lot of people that are great at giving lip-service in front of the camera and at sucking down the not-quite actual bribes in back rooms. Natura

The US elects a lot of people that are great at giving lip-service in front of the camera and at sucking down the not-quite actual bribes in back rooms. Naturally they don't do budgets the rational way: by writing in the funding at the same time that the actual law/regulation is being enacted. I really don't understand how's it's feasible to pass such unfunded mandates. If something costs more it should be clearly added, hopefully with limits or automatic scaling (in the case of something like say, requiring that every X see a 'full' response (E.G. natural disasters, murders, etc).