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Immense Budget

…Most likley they are making the wrong things which don’t work. Figure 1: Total Obligation Authority for for DoD Procurement in constant 2008 dollars from 2001 to 2011 FY 2008…

…AB. In January of 2001 the US government was expected to run a total surplus of $5 trillion between 2001 and 2010. But now our best guess is that the…

…get the approval of the $87 billion, will still be less as a percentage of our total capacity to pay for it, our total economic activity in this country, than…

…of the issue: An Example of why Weighting Matters Expenditures per Dollar of Taxes Total Tax Revenue Total Federal Expenditures (=Exp. Per Dollar * Total Tax Revenue) Blue Blue-1 $1.05…