I have one of the Death & Taxes posters hanging on the wall next to me at all times. It is quite nice, and viewable online: wallstats.com

Each time I hear about a program cut, tax cut, etc I immediately observe it in relation to the rest of the budget for some perspective. As Rightwingconspirator points out, all this wrangling recently really doesn’t lead to any of the serious discussion we need to have to get the budget, and debit, under control.