At the beginning of the budget document is a little bit called "Note to Readers.

In this, one is introduced to the radical concept of actually calling government programs to account for their successes and failures.

This is something new. As we have seen over the past decades, the effectiveness of a particular government program has little if anything to do with its funding level. As just one example of many, look at how much more we spend on education at the Federal level each year, yet our students get stupider.

Government spending works by intent, not results. As long as you INTEND good to come from it, the actual results are irrelevant.

To actually connect cause and effect in the field of government spending is so off-the-wall, that most commentators may not even understand it at first. Let's see what happens.