How Budget Battles Go

Do today's budget battles make you yearn for simpler times, when fewer than a hundred men ran the U.S. government and the "media" consisted of a few dozen newspapers? Ah, but a quick look at the budgeting process as it worked 200 years ago proves that it was never so simple. Even decisions that look brilliant today had their critics at the time--and the press was particularly harsh.

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