2009 US Budget

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Here's a rather informative infographic:

 

http://www.wallstats.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/WallStatsDATlarge.jpg

 

Spending is up 10%, while revenue is only up 7%

 

Defense tops spending again, followed by social security and medicare

[Pangloss]

No it's not, it's smaller than Social Security, even including the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan (sorry, I mean the "overseas contingency operations"). And mandatory entitlement spending DWARFS discretionary spending, so we'll have none of that now. See the more accurate summary below, which takes the numbers from the White House web site.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_United_States_federal_budget

 

By the way, whomever put that graphic together didn't even get the year right. The one they'll implement in October is the 2010 budget, not the 2009 budget. The 2009 budget is the one they're using now.

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No it's not, it's smaller than Social Security, even including the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan (sorry, I mean the "overseas contingency operations").

 

That is not the case, and we've been over this before.

 

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_United_States_federal_budget#Total_spending

 

And mandatory entitlement spending DWARFS discretionary spending, so we'll have none of that now.

 

Mandatory spending is not "entitlement spending," and we've been over that before as well (same post, same thread). Entitlement programs are a subset of mandatory spending. $260 billion of the mandatory spending is interest on the national debt. That's not entitlement spending.

 

See the more accurate summary below, which takes the numbers from the White House web site.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_United_States_federal_budget

 

By the way, whomever put that graphic together didn't even get the year right. The one they'll implement in October is the 2010 budget, not the 2009 budget. The 2009 budget is the one they're using now.

 

This infographic is not for Obama's proposed 2010 budget. It is for the 2009 budget.

[Pangloss]

That's not what it says on the graphic. It says it's being debated for October 1st implementation. Could it be old, i.e. from some time last year? If so then I agree that the other analysis is correct as well -- total spending for the "OCOs" was more for the current year, especially once the most recent addition (last week) was factored in.

 

Who made this? I don't know who "wallstats" is, and their site won't load at the root.

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That's not what it says on the graphic. It says it's being debated for October 1st implementation.

 

You appear to be correct, this is Obama's budget..

 

Who made this? I don't know who "wallstats" is, and their site won't load at the root.

 

He's a designer, it looks like:

 

http://wallstats.com/about/