Subj : Federal Spending
To   : Jeff Thiele
From : Dale Shipp
Date : Sat Oct 22 2022 01:21:00

 -=> On 10-21-22  18:13,  Jeff Thiele <=-
 -=> spoke to Aaron Thomas about Re: Breaking News from Ma <=-

 AT> Trillions of dollars later, where did it all go? I don't see jack!

 JT> By "trillions of dollars," are you talking about the US budget? Well
 JT> over half of it goes to defense, much of what's left goes to paying the
 JT> salaries of federal workers, a few slivers go to maintaining the social
 JT> safety net, such as it is, another sliver goes to NASA (who just
 JT> knocked an asteroid off course in a test of planetary defense), some of
 JT> it goes to maintaining and improving the infrastructure, etc.

 JT> A lot of it you don't see because you take it for granted.

The numbers / order that you quote are sort of right for the
discretionary spending.  From a chart for FY2021, reference:

https://www.nationalpriorities.org/budget-basics/federal-budget-101/spending/

spending for military spending is almost 50%.  Next come sizable chunks
for Education, Health, VA benefits, then Government.  Decreasing smaller
chunks are for housing & community, transportation, international
affairs, energy & environment, labor, science an a small sliver for food
and agriculture.  But all of that is only 1.6 Trillion of the total 7
Trillion spending.  The rest of the spending is called mandatory
spending, and social security, unemplyment & labor is more than half of
that.  Medicare & Health take up what looks like just over another
quarter of the total mandatory spending.

But if you are talking about the total US budget, you are quite wrong.

                               Dale Shipp
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