A picture is worth a thousand words.
http://mwhodges.home.att.net/fed_budget.htm
Why is it so hard for the government to come to grasp with the notion that the solution to budget problems IS TO SPEND LESS. Just about every family and individual has had to do this at some point, it's not that difficult.
What boggles the mind is the thought that government programs need real growth, because most don't. The average program should be budgeted this way: take the population of the country and divide it into the program's budget, the following year take the rate of inflation, add it to the per capita dollar amount and multiply by the population.
Ping to the Geezer. Actual data that shows that the "entitlement" side of the budget is driving the deficit (which remains under 5% of GDP -- of concern, but not the debacle that Hillary-Gore-Kerry-Pelosi-Reid would have us believe).
Now, if we can get a graph of US revenues, we will see that revenues are growing strongly. But, the Dems still want tax increases, and call reductions in the rate of spending "cuts."
Kudos for showing some actual data.
