I still maintain the majority has no idea what the budgeting process is and how it either works or does not.

Budgets do not work from the bottom or anywhere along the way to the top.
Budgets can only be constructed when the guidelines are DICTATED by the very top management of an entity. In the case of governement that would be for now Obama.

And he is a good example of why we have not had a budget since he has been in office.

Budgets are easy to make. They do not happen when the rank and file are allowed to do anything they want without someone saying no.

It is sort of like a fire hose. If the lead guy is on the hose at the nozzle the hose is controlled and the water reaches it's target.

Obama has a grip on the hose about 15 feet back from the nozzle and it is whipping about out of control......and he either refuses to move toward the nozzle to get control. Or he just has no idea what to do to gain control. Or lastly there is benefit for him to not excercise any control.