Well another year and another huge spending bill for the US Government - it's getting to the point where it does not matter what big number they pull out. With the Dollar dropping like a rock, it's all funny money anyway. $555 Billion! That's right Billion, with $70 Billion going straight to Iraq to build more state-of-the art police stations nobody uses. In the meantime our roads and bridges here in America look like we're the ones that have gone through a war. American manufacturing has gone the way of the US Steel industry and the gap between rich and poor is making Karl Marx say "I told you so!"Of course, we have millions of citizens that do not have health insurance, Trillions of dollars of foreign debt, a huge trade deficit with China - and they want us to keep spending money we don't have to keep this economy from going into recession. I tell you, we don't deserve that verse in the National Anthem that says we are the "Home of the Brave". If we as a nation had any kind of real bravery we would have stood up to our rich overlords by now and toppled this Oligarchic Plutocracy that we call the United States .