The Federal Government Budget Explained Clearly

Our Federal Government budget explained in simple English:

United States Tax Revenue: $2,170,000,000,000

Fed Budget: $3,820,000,000,000

New Debt: $1,650,000,000,000

National Debt: $14,271,000,000,000

Recent Budget Cut: $38,500,000,000

Now, remove eight zeros and pretend it's a household budget:

Annual Family Income: $21,700

Money The Family Spent: $38,200

New Debt on the Credit Card: $16,500

 

Outstanding Balance on Credit Card: $142,710

 

Total budget cuts which some politicians are proud of: $385

The Tyranny of the Common Good

Let me get this straight . . . ...

 

We're going to be "gifted" with a health care plan we are forced to purchase and fined if we don't, which purportedly covers at least ten million more people without adding a single new doctor, but provides for 16,000 new IRS agents, written by a committee whose chairman says he doesn't understand it;  passed by a Congress that didn't read it but exempted themselves from it, and signed by a President who smokes, with funding administered by a treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes, for which we'll be taxed for four years before any benefits take effect, by a government which has already bankrupted Social Security and Medicare, all to be overseen by a surgeon general who is obese, and financed by a country that's broke!!!!!

 

What the hell could possibly go wrong?

 

-- Author Unknown (as of now)

 

Union Protester of the Year! (WI)

This is the most descriptive photo of a Wisconsin union support to date!




Hat tip: American Glob