By Kelly Sloan, includes “… Some fifty years ago Sen. Paul Douglas of Illinois, who had been an economics professor in his pre-congressional life, stood up in the Senate chamber to announce that he had devoted the entire month of December to perusing the federal budget. There were only two people in the world who had read it, he reported, himself and the man who wrote it. Sen. Douglas, the story goes, then sat down and wept uncontrollably … If he wept then, one wonders what his reaction would be today. … The larger and more ambitious government gets, the more its bureaucracy thrives in opaqueness.”