emptystep
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I took the 2013 White House budget,
E-Book | The White House
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...d43CRg1GwhUfZlA&bvm=bv.41524429,d.dmQ&cad=rja
and put each department listed, total budget, and the amount changed over 2012 budget. I left out all other information which might be important but how would I know. I will try to find the numbers in the House budget so a comparison can be made. The sum of all departments listed is $1269.349B or about $1.27Tor $1.27 x 10^12
(for the those who know my document program kept crashing so I did this in gvim )
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
$23B, -3%, -$700
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
$8B, +5%, +$380M
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
$525.4B, -1%, -$5.1B
achieve $486.9 billion in savings by 2021.
NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE PROGRAM
$52.6B
OVERSEAS CONTINGENCY OPERATIONS
$96.7B, -24%
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
$69.8B, +2.5 percent, +$1.7B
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
$27.2B, +3.2
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
$76.4B, +$0.3 billion
DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
$39.5B, -0.5%, -$191M
DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
$44.8B, +3.2%, +$1.4B
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
$11.4B, +1%
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
$27.1B, -0.4%
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
$12B, -slight
DEPARTMENT OF STATE AND OTHER INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS
$51.6B, +1.6%, +$0.8B
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
$74B, +2%, +$1.4 billion
DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
$14B, -2.7%
DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS
$64B, +4.5
CORPS OF ENGINEERSCIVIL WORKS
$4.7B, -5.4%
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
$8.3B, -1.2%, -$105M
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
$17.7B, -0.3 percent, -$59M
NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
$7.4B, +$340M
SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
$949M, +3%, +$32M
SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION
$11.7B, +slight
CORPORATION FOR NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE
$1.1B, +1%
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
$525.4B, -1%, -$5.1B
achieve $486.9 billion in savings by 2021.
NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE PROGRAM
$52.6B
OVERSEAS CONTINGENCY OPERATIONS
$96.7B, -24%
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
$69.8B, +2.5 percent, +$1.7B
Looking at this is disturbing, I mean most of it I find disturbing but this section in particular. All that money spent on war is so crazy, what a waste. I think that public education should be switched over to a voucher system but then triple the education budget.
I like that "OVERSEAS CONTINGENCY OPERATIONS"
A couple days or so I watched Panetta and Dempsey sit at a table and said that they had created a budget for Defense Department which took a heck of a lot of money out of it. The amount ended up being the same after 10 years as what the sequester would do.
I was looking over the Simpson-Bowles report. They have a lot of recommendations but I don't think it really translated into how one would create a budget. The panel was economists when it should have been accountants. I think what really needs to happen is a congressional hearing and bring in people like Paul Krugman. There are some really smart people who think about this problem all the time who are really smart but may not be buddy buddy with someone on the committee and not going to say what they want to hear. One issue with that however is Simpson-Bowles took seven months and we have about two. Also have each person who summits a budget for a department come in front of the committee and defend exactly how much money they want and what they are going to do with it. You want 525.5B for defense? Why? You really need that much? You better tell me our nation will be overrun by the Hun if you don't get it. How much do you want for education? 69.8B! Are you crazy. What in the world would you do with all that money? Educate our children for a better future you say? Well, have 80B and go do your job. Next. Want 52.6B for intel? What are you going to do with it? Won't tell me? Well I'm not going to tell you whether you can have it.