The Unabridged And Illustrated Federal Budget For Dummies - Part 1

[HK in AK]

Well, I hope this helps everyone understand how government doesn't work.

In a four-part series, on the premise that a picture paints a thousand words, we present, via The Heritage Foundation, everything you wanted to know about the Federal Budget - In Charts. We start with Federal Spending - which is at record levels and is still growing, threatening economic freedom.

Federal Spending per Household Is Skyrocketing

The federal government is spending more per household than ever before. Since 1965, spending per household has grown by 152 percent, from $11,900 in 1965 to $30,015 in 2012. From 2012 to 2022, it is projected to rise to $34,602—a 15 percent increase.

LINK: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/unabri...art-1-spending

About

The best-known and most influential right-wing think tank, the Heritage Foundation owes much of its success to savvy marketing and PR and the generous donations of right-wing benefactors, foundations and wealthy corporations. The foundation boasts about its influence on Capitol Hill yet insists that it does not "lobby."Heritage Foundation
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More about the heritage foundation, from a negative opinion site.....just so you nancy-boy naysayers don't get your shorts in a ringer! http://www.rightwingwatch.org/conten...age-foundation

[C.Puffs]

The stupidity in some of the comments is downright depressing.

[FlintHillBilly]

Interesting read, thanks for the post HK.

The stupidity in some of the comments is downright depressing.

Agreed, although the comments were a little easier to read that something else where, say Yahoo or CNN.

I wish they (those running the machine) would just come out and say it bluntly. Things are not looking good and we need to pull our heads our of our @ss to get through this together.

In other words prepare for the worst and hope for the best.