In an age were the US Federal Reserve keeps mysteriously losing billions of dollars and printing more than that, I can assure you that all of these little "bits" will continue to go up in price because of inflation. Its debt my friends. Trillions of it. And no silly little 60 billion dollar reduction is going to affect it. Congress came in with a goal of, at minimum, to reduce the debt by 100 billion dollars (which wasn't even close to being enough btw). They couldn't even eek out 60 billion. Moreover, the GBO just put out a document showing how the federal government could cut out 200 billion in wasted tax payers money today by illuminating duplicated services. No one seems to care. You think inflation was bad when Carter was in office? Just wait. These are just a few of the problems, there are thousands more. We are all in for a nasty ride.