 obama s stash   an arcane budgetary category called ldquo unobligated funds rdquo includes money that congress has appropriated for agencies and programs in every corner of the federal government when that money goes unspent it just sits there mdash like an ancient wooden chest on a caribbean island just waiting to be pried open   the federal government literally sits on billions of unspent dollars that are just waiting to be spent some of these funds have sat there for years maybe we could use some of this money to pay down the debt for an article on the subject from national review online by deroy murdock click on the following story link titled   the federal government rsquo s unspent billions   obama stash  