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From an article in Parade, Sunday, March 16, 2008 -- parade.com

"Total estimated federal spending for 2008 will be about $2.93 trillion, a 7% increase over last year". Where/for what does the money go? Here's a partial listing:

Consumer & Occupational
Health and Safety-- $3.1 billion

Federal Prison System-- $6.2 billion

Disaster Relief & Insurance -- $12 billion

Int'l Development & Humanitarian Aid-- $14.3 billion

Nat'l Institutes of Health -- $28.6 billion

Food & Nutrition Assistance -- $60.2 billion

Homeland Security -- $64.9 billion

Medicare -- $396 billion

Military Spending -- $583 billion

Social Security -- $615 billion


You can find the rest of the Federal budget at parade.com.

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The_Heretic

Too bad republicans haven't let this money do any good.

Definitely time to rethink nonviolent drug offenses.

Time to demand a refund.

We know the federal budget is over two point two trillion, yet we're seeing only about one point eight here. This is what happens when you let the extreme right wing do spending and accounting.

Oh, and we should shitcan that bullshit Scarecrow Defense Initiative. They're not going to hit jack shit with those interceptors unless North Korea's polite enough to put a transponder in their warheads and not decoy reentry vehicles.

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DRS112

The numbers change from site to site as to how the money is allocated...I don't see interest on this one....

poetrychic

the interest probably dwarfs most of the actual spending...they didn't want to shock people, it is parade, afterall...could you imagine what would happen if a larger section of the population knew just how much money we were paying in interest right now?

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DRS112

It's in the $300 billion range...

poetrychic

i had heard that on npr a few weeks back...i had no idea...i was shocked...especially when looking at what they spend on programmes, like the one's cookie posted...

$300+ billion in interest

vs. copy and paste

Consumer & Occupational
Health and Safety-- $3.1 billion

Federal Prison System-- $6.2 billion

Disaster Relief & Insurance -- $12 billion

Int'l Development & Humanitarian Aid-- $14.3 billion

Nat'l Institutes of Health -- $28.6 billion

Food & Nutrition Assistance -- $60.2 billion

Homeland Security -- $64.9 billion

Medicare -- $396 billion



we should be appalled by that...sigh

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Titanium Cat

Actually I think it was 406 billion for fiscal year 2006.

Not sure where this parade report gets their figures on though. Social Security spending is not part of the Federal budget (3.0 trillion) either.

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DRS112

I'd be interested in seeing numbers that show the budget at 3 trillion...

and how SS is not part of federal budget....

Edit...okay techinically SS is not part of budget...but nonetheless...the money comes in and is paid out..it's not part of the general fund...but it is part of what could be considered a budget...and from what I understand the money is spent elsewhere...even if illegal...maybe it's a misconception...but...

kblair7

Since it's incomplete...they haven't released the full documents yet.

Titanium Cat

You could probably go to the US gov's website and they'd have the budget outlined. Probably spread over 150 pages of some pdf mind you.

It's definitely off budget and has been for over 20 years. But yes it's more of an accounting trick at this point than anything else. They are continually "borrowing" from the off budget SS surplus to reduce the federal budget deficit.

Edit: My point about it is that 615 billion was in ADDITION to the 3.0 trillion federal budget.

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