It has been 1316 days or 3 years, 7 months and 6 days since the Senate has passed a budget.
 
  • Since Senate Dems last passed a budget, Facebook has grown from about 200 million users to 900 million users. 
  • Last time the Senate Democrats passed a budget, the only people “occupying” Wall Street worked there.
  • The last time the Democrats passed a budget, Sarah Palin was governor of Alaska.
  • The last time Senate Dems passed a budget, Glee had not yet premiered. 
  • The last time Dems passed a budget, Bernie Madoff was a free man.
  • The last time the Dems passed a budget, the Space Shuttle still had 11 missions to go before retiring. 
  • Osama bin Laden, Moammar Gaddafi, and Kim Jong-il were alive the last time the Democrats passed a budget.
  • The last time the Dems passed a budget, "Jersey Shore" wasn't on TV.
  • The last time Dems passed a budget, Tiger Woods was happily married.
  • The last time Dems passed a budget, Lindsey Lohan was unfamiliar with prison jumpsuits.
  • When the Senate Dems last passed a budget, Elena Kagan had never served as a judge.
  • Last time Dems passed a budget, Lost was still on TV.
  • The last time the Senate Dems passed a budget, nobody knew how to pronounce Iceland’s volcano “Eyjafjallajökull.” To be fair, that’s still true.
  • The last time Dems passed a budget, Barack Obama wasn’t a proud Nobel Peace Prize recipient.
  • Last time the Democrats passed a budget, James Cameron's most recent hit was "Titanic." Released in 1997.
  • The last time Senate Dems passed a budget, Nikki Haley was serving in the SC House of Representatives. 
  • Last time Dems passed a budget, Robert Byrd was still alive.
  • Last time the Democrats passed a budget there was no such thing as an iPad.
  • Last time the Dems passed a budget, Fast and Furious was just a movie.
  • The last time the Democrats passed a budget, Kate Middleton was a commoner.
  • The last time the Democrats passed a budget, we were paying $1.83 for a gallon of gas.
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  • The last time the Democrats passed a budget, no one had launched a single "Angry Bird" at a single green pig.
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  • Last time the Dems approved a budget, South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford was planning a certain trip to Argentina.
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  • The last time Senate Dems passed a budget... unemployment was around the same as it is now.


"Higher taxes never reduce the deficit. Governments spend whatever they take in and then whatever they can get away with." -- Milton Friedman