[muawiyah]

The patent office is engaged in a constitutionally required federal government function ~ bet you missed that part.

Now, tell us, would you rather have a meaningless patent office or one that works?

[Opinionated Blowhard]

If it means spending $3.7 trillion a year and borrowing over a trillion of it, I'd rather have a meaningless patent office. Your question is a false choice. We can easily cut $85 billion. They are not zeroing out the patent office. If Obama did the cuts in a reasonable way, no one would feel anything other than a minor inconvenience.