labor day not so much

I am having a hissy fit about this balanced budget bullshit that is supposed to take precedence over All Else including job creation in the Rick Perry Republican world—and so is every other NYT columnist today, including in this op-ed piece that invokes my former bossman Dan Okrent on the subject of Prohibition, comparing the legislation of morality then to, er, the legislation of morality now. How is it that no one seems to care that no one seems to care?