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2016 Postmortem

Hydra

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5. This is the Elephant in the room

Reply to hedgehog (Original post)

Mon Dec 3, 2012, 06:50 PM

Dec 2012

The Military/police/intel and Gov't corruption are swallowing our budget whole. If people were constantly seeing the bottom chart, they'd be asking how much we should be cutting from the red and putting into social programs.

The upper chart makes the social programs look like the economic drag.

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Budget diagrams - why are Social Security and Medicare ever shown on diagrams of the Federal [View all] hedgehog Dec 2012 OP

You answered your own question DJ13 Dec 2012 #1

Spam deleted by gkhouston (MIR Team) skrempi313 Dec 2012 #2

Do you know the source of that top chart and what the chart itself is labeled? Samantha Dec 2012 #3

I pulled the images off a Google image search; hedgehog Dec 2012 #4

I usually pull my statistics from the Congressional Budget Office Samantha Dec 2012 #8

This is the Elephant in the room Hydra Dec 2012 #5

It's even worse than the second chart makes it appear... Jeff In Milwaukee Dec 2012 #11

Medicare gets approximately 42% of it's expendure from federal general revenue PoliticAverse Dec 2012 #6

So wait. Do I have these numbers right? Squinch Dec 2012 #7

Just pure speculation on my part, but maybe the Federal Government "borrowed" from the Samantha Dec 2012 #9

Chart #2 will never (EVER) appear on Fox News Jeff In Milwaukee Dec 2012 #10