If only someone would bring up the idea of demanding a state budget in eXtensible Business Reporting Language (www.xbrl.org) so that all citizens can crunch the numbers.

Or suggest that the National Governor's Association (NGA.org) provide an xmlified budget for each of the several States so that programs could be analyzed on line by line basis -- State-to-State.

Apparently, there are too many folks making money off of the fight to be concerned with finding tools which could allow for a rationale search for common ground. Well, that being the case I better get started on my soon-to-be "best selling" book!