2008 Federal Spending

[underpants]

2008 Federal Spending
CONSUMER & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH & 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

http://www.parade.com/articles/editions/2008/edition_03-16-2008/Intelligence_Report#governmentwatch

[Clear Blue Sky]

1. The top three expenses show no sign of slowing down either.

[underpants]

3. Social Security is misrepresented as a "government expense"

because it is of itself its own entity in fact, as we all know, the Federal government borrows from IT.

[slipslidingaway]

4. Social Security 2007 receipts ... 784 billion, expenses 594 billion

Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance Trust Funds, 1957-2007


http://www.socialsecurity.gov/OACT/STATS/table4a3.html


Main page for trust fund data

http://www.socialsecurity.gov/OACT/ProgData/funds.html

[underpants]

5. Excellent thanks n/t

[slipslidingaway]

6. You're welcome. 2.2 Trillion borrowed from the trust fund :( n/t

[bronxiteforever]

2. Kick & R-Now we need an annual revenue stream to compare

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

7. Accrording to Global Security

The entire world spend $1.1 Trillion on the military 2004. Of that amount, $600 billion was the U.S, and $500 billion was the rest of the world. We spend on more on guns 'n ammo that the rest of the world combined. That more than five times as much as China and Russia combined.

We could easily cut our military spending by 50% and have no measurable effect on National Security.