Posted on 02/27/2010 10:09:34 PM PST by tjbandrowsky
What's often lost in the federal budget debate is that the amount of money consumed by the government also indicates the amount of time a citizen must devote his or her life to satisfy the government's want of money.
To help illustrate this point, I've posted an online application (no registration required), that lets you balance the federal budget. You can either cut items, or, simply do nothing and implicitly choose to work more hours a year to pay for it. It has all the line items to a fairly good level of detail, down to Pentagon details, entitlements distributions by age bracket (in the case of SSI), and estimated disease type (in the case of disability).
Check it out at:
http://www.mightyware.com/federalbudget.bhs
Not in this release. Eventually I’ll add it. Also going to have state budgets in there as well.
I wrote it and I’m always interested in feedback. Indeed, the reason that I posted it first on freeper is that as a rule the posters here are very intelligent people and the feedback I get is excellent. Thank you all of you.
I have all of those and I can only cut completely or do nothing. I can't reduce something. It's like all or nothing.
What about when the government pays farmers to not grow crops, where does that fall?
That’s the way it works right now. There’s not a partially cut or increase funding on items. I’ll have in a future release.
Cool. Ping me when those changes are in the release.
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