Curious what $20 billion in aid to Iraq will buy? See the breakdown here.
For the full OMB/GPO Federal Budget historical report and the FY 2004 Budget go here.
Reviewing the data, we have gone from a federal budget surplus of $236.4 billion in 2000 to an anticipated deficit of $350 billion in 2003, an almost $600 billion dollar spending spree, or over $2,000 for every man/woman/child in America. But no one seems to see that as horrendous! In the same period our population has increased by about four million people, and we have lost in excess of four million jobs. Isn't it the Republicans who are supposed to be fiscally conservative? And NO, it has NOT gone to Homeland Defense, nor primarily to National Defense. Every agency of the Federal Government is spending considerably more than it did in 2000. What's up with this?
posted by Richard at
Wednesday, October 22, 2003
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