Federal Budget analysis simplified

[Old and In the Way]

Check this link out to see how our spending priorities are currently stacked.....using oreo cookies to get the point accross. Great educational flick for people to see where their money is going.....

Check it out at http://action.truemajority.org/ctt.asp?u=61169&l=275

[ClintonTyree]

1. Great.............

now I have a craving for Oreos. Wonderful explanation though.

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2. Great except it's dishonest

Ben shows about $30 billion being spent on education by the federal government, then laments that about 10 times as much is being spent on defense.

Trouble is, that $30 billion is just federal k-12 money. As most people know, public education is funded by state and local taxes. Private schools also are paid their share.

Add it all up, and you have over $400 billion.

[Old and In the Way]

3. Right, but the point was the money spent on the federal budget.

Obviously, there are different funding priorities at the State/Local level that will increase the numbers somewhat. ABut the federal tax cuts will begin to dry up federal revenue sharing and this will translate to more taxes at the local level to sustain our schools, roads, etc. So Bush is proposing a Ponzi scheme to the "free lunch" believers in the Republican Party.

I think the point is the ridiculous amount of money that we put into a defense budget that could be used make the US a better society. When our infrastructure finally wears out and our kids educational systems approach 2nd world standards, will that make us all sleep better at night? $400BB a year and they can't protect Washington, DC for 52 minutes after the 2nd WTC crash? Bullshit....

Seems that the Democrats could run on a completely radical new vision that reorders the budget priorities, one that invests in America instead of fattening the bank accounts of the Military-Industrial complex and the war profiteers that have facilitate our internal demise.