From Investor's Business Daily: About that government spending problem...

http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/577636/201107071851/Wheres-Outrage-About-Impasse-.htm

"'Constructive meetings' between GOP leaders and the White House should ring the alarm bells. In May, the budget deal to avoid a government shutdown, with a promise of $38.5 billion in spending cuts, was soon found by the Congressional Budget Office to boost spending by $3.2 billion over the rest of the current fiscal year."