I can balance the school budget now, keep the columns adding up. But every year there's more need than money, the reading program or the new heater, the aide this classroom desperately needs or the roof that's leaking again. I move the numbers around and around and somebody's real, necessary thing still ends up getting cut.
More people experience this than they realize.
You can manage the budget but stretching it across every real need still defeats you.
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.