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The Wall Street Journal recently published an article entitled Washington 101: Explaining the budget fiasco.  If your like me you've been extremely confused with the budget debate currently undergoing in congress.  The article seems to break the debate down into terms that the average American can understand.  It also brings to light exactly what is being argued about.  It explains that if Congress fails to act by October 1 there will be a partial government shutdown.  This means that hundreds of thousands of employees will be sent home without pay, military personnel will go unpaid, national parks will close etc.  Basically any discretionary spending will come to a halt.  It's up to the House and the Senate to fix this issue but it seems they can't come to an agreement.  What else is new?