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The budget for this has very little bearing on the debt. See where the money actually goes here: https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/federal
by janosett 2y ago
The budget for this has very little bearing on the debt. See where the money actually goes here: https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/federal-spending/ https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/feder...
- readthenotes1 2y ago"The U.S. government has spent $6.75 trillion in fiscal year 2024 to ensure the well-being of the people of the United States." Reads like something straight out of George Orwell
- ceejayoz 2y agoOnly if you don't know Orwell was an lifelong socialist.
- yellowapple 2y agoContrary to popular belief, socialism is not "when the government does stuff".
- readthenotes1 2y agoOh I do know that Orwell was a lont time socialist (I cannot vouch for lifelong as I do not know how he felt coming out of the womb). He also was very much opposed to authoritarian rule and one of the points of 1984 was to distrust how a government used words to mislead -like in what I quoted
- ceejayoz 2y agoWhat is the authoritarian mislead in said quote?
- lotsofpulp 2y agoI like this website, even though the numbers are a few years old: https://www.thebalancemoney.com/u-s-federal-budget-breakdown-3305789 https://www.thebalancemoney.com/u-s-federal-budget-breakdown... For basically all future years, an even greater proportion (more than two thirds) of federal government spending will be for Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid (old and sick and poorer people).
- tonymet 2y agoYou're confusing the budget (maintenance spending) with the value of the real estate assets. That is, all of the land, e.g. 95% of Nevada, about 70% of the entire western USA If that land was generating income, we could pay off the entire $35+T debt in no time.
- tonymet 2y agoI'm talking about revenue, not spending