Pop Quiz : Budgets Don't Grow On Trees
by Dominic Muren, Philadelphia, USA on 03.25.08
Answer: c) 480
Typically, the budget is an astounding 2,200 pages in length and 3,000 copies are distributed to the public and press. For the first time, the Bush Administration has ended this practice by going paperless, making the budget available on-line only, and, in the process, saving 480 trees. To drive home the move Bush, in revealing the budget to Congress, presented the budget on a Dell Latitude XT Tablet PC.
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Sources:
www.washingtonpost.com
www.budget.gov
www.ecogeek.org/
Although this is a great move, I cannot for the life of me imagine Bush as caring at all about how many trees were saved. Bush's handlers saw this as a way to greenwash his image without actually doing anything. The budget has been created digitally for quite a few years now, so this was not a massive change but just cutting out one step of the process.
I've got the sub title for this post:
"Budgets Don't Grow on Trees...But Our Government Prints It on Them"
...and unfortunately, they do so at will. no wonder the dollar is tanking.
I wonder how many congressional staffers go and print out the budget once they get the electronic file?