[Non-Sequitur]

...at a cost of more than $10 billion according to the Wall Street Journal, which is approximately 24% of our current budget deficit of $248 billion.

So $10 billion is 24% of $248 billion? No wonder the budget is so screwed up with math skills like that.

[Moonman62]

Not only that, but $10 billion is nothing in a budget that is trillions of dollars.