In late April of this year, at the three-month mark of his administration, President Obama challenged his cabinet to save $100 million over the following 90 days. Well, not surprisingly those 90 days have come and gone without the spend-happy administration saying anything about meeting the goals of this self-imposed publicity stunt.

Now don’t get me wrong, any effort to curb out-of-control spending by the rapidly expanding bureaucracy is a good thing. However, at a time when most Americans are personally feeling the pinch of the economic crisis and are understandably cutting back on their own spending, we should expect the president’s own cabinet to be able to respond to his challenge by finding a mere $100 million in savings out of the $3 trillion-plus annual federal budget. After all, that kind of money is only the equivalent of the average American forgoing their daily Starbucks run.