Posted on 02/14/2011 11:25:26 AM PST by SE Mom
The president has proposed a five-year freeze of discretionary spending, excluding national security spending. This type spending accounts for about one-fifth of all spending.
Mandatory spending, which includes entitlement programs like Medicare and Social Security, is expected to continue to rise.
The proposal includes cuts to low income home energy assistance and community service block grants
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Breathtaking numbers.
monstrous budget ping
You’re good.
All the military spending is labeled as “discretionary” and the social security and Medicare and Medicaid are all “mandatory.”
Hmmm.
Let’s check the Constitution to see which function is a mandatory function of the federal government and which is discretionary...
I think I need a bigger screen!
lol
It breaks each one down into a “per household” figure. Don’t look at it if you have a weak stomach. The Social Security scam alone is more than $9,000 per household.
I found that interesting too- not sure why but hope it’s just an accounting reason. Odd.
Pay your taxes.
Your hard working government needs the money more than you. :)
Bookmark.
Net interest on the national debt for 2012:
$474 billion
Eliminate Health and Human Services.
Righto. The Fed has been trying for real inflation...including wages but it ain’t happening. This is bad news. We are screwed.
Thanks for the ping did you notice the largest increase is in interest on the public debt it has increased 14.5% in one year.
I can bet they are planning on increasing spending or least not cutting spending to to all the NAZI departments of government who are trying to micro manage every aspect of our lives. Such as in the clean air and water act which now goes way and far above simply keeping things clean. I don’t know what good all that is going to do when people freeze to death because they can’t afford to heat their homes. Many people already just can not afford that as the cost of doing so has risen several hundreds of a percent in the last 15 years. It has doubled in just the last 3-4 years. The fed is creating that problem to bail out their banker buddies.
for Obama, surrender to enemies of the USA is mandatory.
I just went through the budget that I can see in the nice chart and made some huge cuts.
Medicaid - 100 Billion (10% cut)
Agriculture - 52
Transportation - 6
Education - 60 (everything but PELL grants)
OPM - 40 (50% cut)
HUD - 13 (50%)
IAP - 41
FBI - 1 (1/8 cut)
Energy - 5
State - 5
FCC - 2
Commerce - 2
Defense - 10 B (minimum fair share)
Labor - 50
The total is only 387 B !!!!!
I hope I missed some departments. These are radical cuts but still don’t come close to what is needed. I didn’t touch SS but obviously it will have to take some cuts too. What did I miss??
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