Hay guyz it's the FY2012 federal budget

Post by **GORDON** » Fri Jul 15, 2011 12:58 pm

http://www.gpoaccess.gov/usbudget/fy12/pdf/BUDGET-2012-BUD.pdf

Big-picture stuff. Overwhelms you wondering things like how 50 billion dollars can be spent in the Department of Education, when to my knowledge, they don't actually teach anyone anything.

But I don't think we can get a line-item version, so who knows where all that money goes.

Post by **TPRJones** » Fri Jul 15, 2011 1:15 pm

I can tell you that the things I know about the DoE doing are giving out huge grants for all sorts of things - almost always along the lines of spending money on poor kids to try to get them edumacated, and generally failing more then succeeding - and also spending tons more on administration, bureaucracy, and stupidly wasteful overhead.

Post by **TPRJones** » Fri Jul 15, 2011 1:17 pm

Go check out the Department of Education website, and you'll get the general idea.

Edit: Digging a little, I did find some detailed numbers for you: http://www2.ed.gov/about/overview/budget/budget12/index.html

Edited By TPRJones on 1310750358

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Sat Jul 16, 2011 4:12 pm

After nearly 2 years of job losses, America’s businesses added more than one million jobs. Our capital and credit markets are functioning and strong. Manufacturing is coming back. And after teetering on the brink of liquidation just 2 years ago, America’s auto industry is posting healthy gains and returning money to the taxpayers who helped it through a period of turmoil.

What?

Two years after those dark days, the stock market is booming. Corporations are posting record profits. Momentum is building.

Is it now?

A decade of deficits, compounded by the effects of the recession and the steps we had to take to break it, <s>and spending way more fucking money than we ever had or even have today</s> as well as the chronic failure to confront difficult decisions, has put us on an unsustainable course.

We do this by encouraging American innovation and investing in research and development—especially in the job-creating industries of tomorrow such as clean energy. We do this by rebuilding America’s infrastructure so that U.S. companies can ship their products and ideas from every corner in America to anywhere in the world.

First off, clean energy ... job-creating? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Secondly, we don't really ship things out so much as in.

And finally, we do this by coming together as Americans, not Democrats or Republicans, to make the tough choices that get America’s fiscal house in order, investing in what works, cutting what doesn’t, and changing the way business is done in Washington.

Yep, nothing but compromise.