Let's see, it is February 2015 and Congress has still not passed full budgets ("No time to make America less safe," Feb. 17). Do the people of this country realize that all budgets were supposed to be completed by October 1, 2014? This has been a habit for Congress for years, and if all other businesses operated the same way, their budget staffs would be fired.
In 1968, July 1 was the beginning of the fiscal year, but Congress could never meet that date so it was October before the government got an operating budget. Their brilliant minds then changed the beginning of the fiscal year to October 1 and they rarely met that date. When I retired in 2003, we were getting a budget in April. Based on that date, they still have time.
And you wonder why we can't get anything done, but if you keep doing the same thing the same way with the same people, the results won't change.
Kathy Benton