How Uncle Sam Spends Our Taxes: The Budget in 8 Easy Bites

The T-Publicans are pushing REALLY hard for STATE control of so many issues, proograms etc because in reality STATE gov'ts can manipulate and hide wrongful use of funds and has a closer network of glad-handers etc that'll destroy many lower-middle and lower income people while schooching funds to cronies, supporters, etc .BUT, let's give them a chance to show us that's not the truth. ... $2.7 trillion in IOUs from the U.S. Treasury. The funds have been borrowed over the past two decades to pay for other federal programs.
" ... From the next 10 years federal funds to states in each years budget, Each state will pay back to Soc, Sec. 1/10th of whatever their state received from the SS fund WITH interest! Then the SS fund will be repaid and refilled,... each state can cut what they want/fund what they want withiout that repaid fed money ... Aand a new Soc Sec program to cover anyone NOT currently within 15 - 20 years of retiring under the original SS system will be ushered into the new system just for them ... redcuing their SS tax by 1/110th each year to old S.S. and switching it into THEIR NEW Soc. Sec. system ...

The IRS sucks. Congress, according to the Constitution, must start the process of money bills and congress sure can spend it. The governmnet is suppose to be me and you. My congressman's office called the IRS about a problem and the IRS would not talk to the congressman's office. I was right there in the room. What a hoot! It is about fear. Putting fear into the taxpayer. The real problem is that the double dippers continue to get the double tax refund. I paid mine already to end the pain. I gave the IRS $24,000. If you want an audit or the IRS to mess with your return, sign the return with UCC 308-1 without prejudice below your name. From a disabled Republic of Vietnam Combat Vet.

Yeah, add up "help for low incomers", Medicaid, and at least half of Medicare and you come up with 23.2% that goes to support all the scum on welfare. I especially like the term "low incomers". Is that the latest PC definition for the scum on welfare?

I wonder how many low level government employees could come up with money saving ideas if there was a bonus to be earned if the idea is instituted? The bigger picture to me would be to see where services are duplicated, and eliminate those. The federal department of education is one I would eliminate. That is a states job.

How are homeland security and defense two separate things?

Medicaid is particularly indefensible, so long as people just above the qualification line get the shaft.
Meanwhile others get their mortgages paid off for them. The inequities are endless.

It's not "Defense" -- it's "Military" ... most of it is "Offense" and most of it is counterproductive. America's endless military campaigns create generations of enemies, which have only begun to blow back. Countless lives and countless dollars thrown right down the drain.

The only thing in the entire budget that is impossible to cut is interest on our debt, which accounts for 6% of the total. All the rest can at least be cut, and many items should be eliminated.

If the Government would not have stolen the money from SS fund it would be ok for many, many years to come. Our Politiciant have bilked the SS fund since D.D, Eisenhower to pay off the Korean debt. Since them the Congress changed the laws to make the SS fund their private spending. Now they say it will go broke in 2031, if they put back the 5 trillion that they took from the fun it would not run out at all. It is the people's money not the politicians but they made it their's leaving the people hoping that it will be there when they need it. Tax and spend and giving people money who did not put in one dime into the fund will drain it dry. We don't have any say the Politicians just do as they please. Keep giving our money to others and support people that don't deserve a dime, but that is our liberal government. On the other side the GOP hates and has always hated SS, but it seems they don't have any problems takeing from it.

I could tell you stories that would make your hair curl about careless spending here in the government. Like this, Federal associates in the office where I'm assigned as a contractor have a summer picnic and a holiday party each year. Now, as contractors, if we want to participate, we must either take the time off as unpaid or use one of our precious vacation days. HOWEVER, if one of the Federal associate wants to attend these parties and they are located out of town, they are flown to the city where the party is, given rental cars, and put up in a nice hotel for 2-3 days!!! Heck, I even had to pack and ship their holiday gifts via Fed Ex because they didn't want the hassle of taking them on the plane with them!!! They use disabled people as contractors to do the "dirty work" or the administrative work they don't know how. THEN, when the budget gets too tight from them financing these trips and buying unneeded GPS units, they throw us out into the street! Even if we apply for a job, we won't get even considered! Why? Because we're not veterans. Why are we not veterans? Because we have a disability! It's crazy to hire a "receptionist" to answer the phones and have to pay $42.00 an hour for her. Now, she doesn't get that kind of money, she is lucky to receive $10.00 an hour, no sick leave, minimal vacation time and expensive insurance! There is so much waste going on here, I can only imagine what it's like when you combine all the federal agencies together!