Whenever people start talking about the budget, listener\u2019s eyes glaze over and they start drooling. They can\u2019t conceive of numbers so large and find it impossible to equate the same types of budgeting they do at home to be writ large at the governmental level. Trust me, the politicians spending our money are banking on that. They want a stupid, ignorant, malleable dependent populace. They don\u2019t want you to learn how they are spending and wasting your dollars, largely to either stay in office or to give it to people ideologically opposed to our way of life and thinking.<\/p>\n
But I\u2019m going to try anyway.<\/p>\n
Right now, go to this page. It shows the average person (us) what just one trillion dollars looks like. http:\/\/www.pagetutor.com\/trillion\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n Now, having seen what one trillion dollars looks like, recall that B. Hussein\u2019s budget is 4 times that. Where does all that money come from in order for him to give it all away?<\/p>\n Revenues: 56% of it, 2.2 trillion comes from tax revenues. Individuals, corporations, duties on foreign goods, excise taxes, etc. Over half of it is our taxes. This is money the government has mandated that you give to them. You earned it but they take it.<\/p>\n 29% of the revenues, 1.12 trillion dollars come from Trust Funds from Social Security, Medicare taxes.<\/p>\n 15% of the revenues come from borrowing. We borrow $561 billion dollars to make up the shortfall from what we take in, to what B. Hussein wants to pay out.<\/p>\n Now, where does all that money go?<\/p>\n Expenditures: 65% of it, $2.56 trillion dollars\u2014more than all of the tax revenues taken in, go to pay for Medicare ($999 billion), Medicaid, Social Security ($900 billion), welfare, food stamps ($106 billion), and unemployment ($47 billion). This is all called \u201cmandatory spending\u201d. They are by their definition entitlements but the government says we HAVE to do this spending. So, when they talk about cutting the federal budget, they are not looking here.<\/p>\n \u201cDiscretionary spending\u201d equals 29% of the spending dollars, $1.16 trillion. This is where the defense budget ($640 billion), education ($72 billion), International affairs\u2014also known as foreign aid\u2014money we simply give to other countries\u2014($38 billion), Energy\/Environment ($38 billion), and transportation (fixing our roads)($26 billion). This is money we spend that \u201cwe really don\u2019t have to spend\u201d. Makes me wonder then, why we ALWAYS cut the defense budget first. Why not cut the amount of money we simply give to foreign countries\u2014especially places like Pakistan and other sand pits in the Middle East. We give them money to continue to hate us.<\/p>\n \u201cInterest on the debt\u201d\u20146%, or $252 billion.\u00a0\u00a0 So we borrow $561 billion in order to pay $252 billion in interest (no principal\u2014just interest) on our nation debt. If we\u2019d shitcan the Energy Department, Education Department, and stop giving billions to countries that hate us, we\u2019d cut that $252 billion down to $104 billion. We take in $1.12 trillion for Social Security and Medicare, but pay out $2.5 trillion. More people today are on food stamps than ever in our country\u2019s history. http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/wonkblog\/wp\/2013\/09\/23\/why-are-47-million-americans-on-food-stamps-its-the-recession-mostly\/<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 Almost 47 million Americans take food stamps\u20141 in 6 of us. And they can stay on food stamps longer even if they get a job. If the area where they live is deemed \u201chigh unemployment\u201d they can keep getting them even if they no longer \u201cneed\u201d them.<\/p>\n