As you recall, the fable “ The Goose That Laid The Golden Eggs” was used as a metaphor to highlight the urgent and potentially catastrophic fate of America’s Federal Budget. If government officials don’t intervene to stop the budget from being gutted, we could be hurtling toward a severe economic crisis. It’s not the greedy and senseless farmer robbing the budget. It remains a platoon of clandestine thieves operating as accounts payable personnel, lobbyists, fraudsters, and complicit, wasteful executives/managers.