the Gentle Cabinet: the costs come due — the financing crisis named

The engine of the whole Subsidized-Time scheme, stated as a headline: the Reconfiguration was free to declare and ruinous to execute, and "WALL STREET ANGST OVER COSTS" forces a "BUDGET OVERHAUL." The itemized bill — "MISSILE INVERSION EXPENDITURES, RELOCATION COSTS, LOSS OF REVENUE FROM BETTER PART OF FOUR STATES" — is the theme's fiscal spine: the experialist gift bankrupts the giver, and the search for a way to pay for it is what turns time itself into ad inventory. Everything Subsidized follows from this line.