For Republicans, the compromise reduces funding to two of their least-favorite agencies -- the Internal Revenue Service and the Environmental Protection Agency. Overall, federal spending would be lower than the final budget of President George W. Bush's administration.
. The White Man's Burden  is a poem by the English poet Rudyard Kipling. It was originally published in the popular magazine McClure's in 1899, with the subtitle The United States and the Philippine Islands.
In Matthew 23:4 Jesus describes the heavy burdens the Pharisees laid upon the people but they themselves are not willing to lift a finger to move them.. Obviously this is a burden of legalism. This same Greek word is used to describe a man's load of imperfections and sins in Galatians 6:5.n the Old Testament the English word burden is translated from the Hebrew word massa [ a'C;m ]. It is used of a donkey's burden (Exod 23:5). In Numbers 4:15 it is used of the items the sons of Kohath carried as they moved the tabernacle from place to place in the wilderness.