According to Spendaholics what takes up most of governments spending today?
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Health and Human Services (Which includes Urban Development, and Welfare) comes in at number one with a yearly projected budget of 650 Billion Dollars. Department of Defense is number two with a projected budget of around 515 Billion Dollars, and the Treasury Department is number 3 with a projected budget of 415 Billion Dollars (mostly due to the interest we pay on the national debt.)\n\nThe next largest after that is a huge drop with the Department of Agriculture with a projected budget of around 90 Billion.\n\n\nPlease Note that Social Security is not part of the Federal Budget general fund. It is a separate account and has its own source of income. As a comparison though, Social Security has an estimated budget of 500 Billion. \n\nFission
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The current debt of the U.S. government is:\n\n$8,332,524,238,683.71\n\nI wonder how we can spend so much, with the debt we're in.  What's our credit rating?
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People watch taxes because they can easily see how they affect them.  But it's government _spending_ we should really be watching.  As a libertairian I think most government spending is wrong.  But at least the Democrats are honest.  They say they want to tax the people to give money to their favored causes. When the Republicans took over all branches of government a while back they did so by claiming they wanted to reduce spending and cutting taxes.  They cut taxes and grew government spending at the highest rate ever seen in US history.  All spending is in fact a form of taxation.  The only question is who's going to pay.
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lots. The biggest one (IMHO) is Social Security.
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You really should check just how much money is spent on entitlement programs in this country... it could open your eyes.\n\nReading the responses, I see that you aren't the only one that doesn't have a clue to how this government spends money.
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Do the time and find out the real facts.  70 cents of every dollar paid in taxes goes toward welfare and social service in the U.S.  Only the following thirty cents goes to infrastructure -- of that less than 7 percent goes to  defense and the bulk of that goes to local police , firemen etc, far from a militaristic imperialistic society.. If your thoughts held true, at the zenith of our military advantage, after WW II , when we had the atom bomb and no one else did, when we were producing an average of a battleship a day, we would not have stopped at Germany and Japan but continued on easily to world domination.
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Republican spending is bad in the pork arena.  They claim to be for less government then they create 1000's of pet projects.  They don't respect the taxpayer!
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gao.gov\n\nGeneral Accounting Office - they know everything about spending our tax dollars\n\ntype in DOD budget in the search
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The Defense Budget is the largest part of our Federal Budget, however only a small part of what we pay for defense is going to fight the war in Iraq.  My vote would have to say that even with all the new regulations on Medicaid and assistance that it costs the Government more to pay for Welfare Programs than it does to fight the War in Iraq.
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Bothers me a lot that our budget deficits are being bought like candy by every major asian power.  They take those IOU's, trade 'em for cash, and then by the shoes off our feet.  The more our government spends on useless wars and "homeland security", the more the Asians can buy us legitimately...funny how our war for oil is going to really screw us in that department in the long run.
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By raising taxes and spending money like there is no tomorrow. How else do Democrats operate?
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if they increase spending either they can suck more taxes out of you down the road which will in time LOWER consumption\nOR they are spending on putting money into the public (raising welfare) etc which puts more money in the pockets of people and RAISES consumption
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oil, water, money, power, Bush, etc.
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Easy, the candidate that has received the most money from the businesses that are "interfered" with by government.\nIt's considered a cost of doing business.  Buy the politicians necessary for getting things like pesky environmental or labor laws changed, watered down or just ignored.\n\nYep, most likely a conservative.\n*
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1. Packaging materials, especially plastics and paper based are the most needed today and high consumption items.\n2. Food items - time pass items are consumed to a large extent by the neo-youth who spend 12 hours in their workplace.\n3. Stitching of dress materials, of all kinds and shapes.\n\nThese are some of the items that can be produced in small towns.\nVR
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Fiscal deficit is spending more than is taken in. When it's government spending the difference is made up by borrowing, for example, selling bonds. This leaves the debt and interest to be paid by our children.  Last week I heard the current deficit has indebted each US citizen $27,000*.  In 2000, at the end of the last administration, there was a surplus (spent less than was taken in).
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