Federal Spending in the States

The federal government spent $3.1 trillion in the states during its 2013 fiscal year.

For nearly three decades, the U.S. Census Bureau produced the Consolidated Federal Funds Report, an annual look at the geographic distribution of federal spending. But following the publication of the fiscal 2010 data, the Census Bureau discontinued the report. To fill this data gap, the Pew Charitable Trusts’ fiscal federalism initiative prepared this analysis and companion methodology.

Retirement benefits payments to individuals include Social Security retirement, survivor, and disability payments; veterans benefits; and other federal retirement and disability payments. Social Security accounts for about three-fourths of these payments.

Nonretirement benefits payments to individuals include Medicare benefits, food assistance, unemployment insurance payments, student financial aid, and other assistance payments. Medicare accounts for nearly two- thirds of these payments.

Grants include funding to state and local governments for a variety of program areas such as health care, transportation, education, and housing, as well as funding for individuals and other nonfederal entities, such as research grants. Medicaid grants to states account for about half of all federal grants.

Contracts for purchases of goods and services, from military and medical equipment to information technology and catering services. Defense purchases account for more than half of federal contracts.

Salaries and wages for federal employees. Roughly two-thirds of this spending is for civilians, and one-third is for military personnel.

The "wonderful" New World Order PEW Charitable Trusts is "helping the sheeple to understand" (i.e., attempting to cleverly pull the wool over the sheeple's eyes) all about Federal Spending.

The salient point that is glaring in its absence...

There is only ONE category that goes directly to sheeple: retirement benefits, i.e., Social Security. Mom and Pop get checks in that case.

In the case of "non-retirement benefits", a.k.a., Medicare and Medicaid... the checks get sent to THE MEDICAL INDUSTRY, a.k.a., New World Order's highly profitable mutilation and death industry.

But the lying sack of cr@p PEW "Charitable" Trusts... would have the sheeple believe that non-retirement benefits is money paid to sheeple. Hah ! That's a good one. Gotta hand it to new world order, they do have audacity, telling people that payments sent to the medical industry to pay for their "care" is money paid to them.

So if you look at the PEW-stinky story at the link, which does have LOTS of good data, state-by-state, including a very nice downloadable spreadsheet (must see!), just remember that in Figure 2, only the dark blue color on the left is money for sheeple. All the other monies to the right get paid to those corporate entities that know how to wallow up to the Federal trough and slurp up all that good cash, a.k.a., sheeple-tax dollars.

You have to really like how the Census Bureau discontinued their report after 2010.

You know, to save costs.

In a multi-trillion-dollar budget, there’s just no room for the cost of reporting on where the trillion dollars goes.

Wow. Total mixed bag no real red vs blue states although red states in one chart takes more federal then blue states but on another section they kind of mix up some. Bottom line states should not get a dime of federal money. States should take care of their own people. Stop all federal money to states.

And to think about it: this is one the _primary_ reasons USA is collapsing. The _District_ takes almost all taxes which belong to the states, bypassing anything resembling lawful apportment and then bribes and coerces states into their central plan, or they don’t get their own money _back_.

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