Were you wondering what the Fed govt is spending your money on?

[Little-Acorn]

This graph is from data published in the Statistical Abstract of the United States, published annually by the Federal government.

This is from the 2012 edition, the last one published. The government has decided not to publish this annual compilation and longer. For the reason why, see the graph below.

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[Little-Acorn]

I updated the picture slightly.

 

[Little-Acorn]

View attachment 39777 This graph is from data published in the Statistical Abstract of the United States, published annually by the Federal government.

This is from the 2012 edition, the last one published. The government has decided not to publish this annual compilation and longer. For the reason why, see the graph below.

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Looks like this is another subject the liberals don't want to touch with a ten-foot pole.

I don't blame them for being afraid of it.

 

[Delta4Embassy]

View attachment 39777 This graph is from data published in the Statistical Abstract of the United States, published annually by the Federal government.

This is from the 2012 edition, the last one published. The government has decided not to publish this annual compilation and longer. For the reason why, see the graph below.

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All government money is imaginary not being backed by anythign with real value. Consequently, $18 trillion in debt or $100 trillion doesn't really matter. Only one making hay out of government spending are the ones who're trying to convince ignorant people that the amoung matters. It doesn't Couldn't pay off a single trillion dollar debt nevermind 18 or more trillion.

The US economy will eventually default on it's national debt and the entire interconnected global economy will collapse and burn. This is unavoidable. Like the Yellowstone supervolcano erupting, it's not a question of if, but of when.

 

[Little-Acorn]

All government money is imaginary not being backed by anythign with real value. Consequently, $18 trillion in debt or $100 trillion doesn't really matter.
The US economy will eventually default on it's national debt and the entire interconnected global economy will collapse and burn.

This is typical of the confusion of people who don't think very carefully about issues. They say that govt debts don't matter, and almost in the same breath tell us that the entire world's economy will crash as a result of them.

They have a strange definition of "doesn't matter".

Back to the subject:
If the U.S. govt hadn't been indulging in unconstitutional liberal programs, they would have no debt at all - even the WWI and WWII debts would have been paid off by now, and they would be able to reduce taxes without incurring any more.

 

[Little-Acorn]

BTW, the govt was fudging the data, even in that official report.

The accepted way of doing accounting is to put all your expenditures in one part of the ledger, and all your revenue in another part. When the two totals match, you have a "balanced budget".

But the govt put a number of revenue amounts in their "Federal government expenditures" list, such as interest taken in, put right next to interest paid out (on the national Debt). Then they reported "Net interest", apparently in an attempt to make the National Debt seem less expensive than it was.

I took those revenues out, and re-added up the totals, counting expenditures ONLY, as any honest person would do.

 

[LordBrownTrout]

Looks like gravy train.

 

[Little-Acorn]

Looks like gravy train.

I think the term you're looking for is "vote buying".

 

[PaintMyHouse]

View attachment 39777 This graph is from data published in the Statistical Abstract of the United States, published annually by the Federal government.

This is from the 2012 edition, the last one published. The government has decided not to publish this annual compilation and longer. For the reason why, see the graph below.

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Well there's a dog that won't hunt.

 

[Little-Acorn]

All government money is imaginary not being backed by anythign with real value.

It is backed by people's belief that the guy next to them will give them something of value for it.

That's not "real value"?

 

[Little-Acorn]

If the U.S. govt hadn't been indulging in unconstitutional liberal programs, they would have no debt at all - even the WWI and WWII debts would have been paid off by now, and they would be able to reduce taxes without incurring any more.

 

[HenryBHough]

OK, the pie chart is incomplete.

I didn't see a single item for either "family vacations in faraway places" or "greens fees".

Surely it ain't because there was nothing spent on either.......

 

[Little-Acorn]

OK, the pie chart is incomplete.

I didn't see a single item for either "family vacations in faraway places" or "greens fees".

Surely it ain't because there was nothing spent on either.......

An important omission! Thanks for pointing it out!

Any chance it could come under "All Other"?

Naaw, that only shows a $billion or so, no way could those things have fit in there.