TheRealMafoo on 07 May 2009
| Kasz216 said: 17 billion down... 1.5 trillion or so to go. |
17 billion down, 1,500 billion or so to go. Put it into perspective :)
Here are some numbers to put 17 billion in its place.
| Program | Type of program | FY 2008 (Billions of dollars) | FY 2009 (Billions of dollars) | FY 2010 (Billions of dollars) | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Department of Defense | Appropriated program | 593 | 666 | 673 | |||||||||
| 2 | Other appropriated programs | Appropriated program | 528 | 613 | 695 | |||||||||
| 3 | Social Security | Mandatory program | 612 | 662 | 695 | |||||||||
| 4 | Medicare | Mandatory program | 386 | 425 | 453 | |||||||||
| 5 | Medicaid | Mandatory program | 201 | 259 | 290 | |||||||||
| 6 | Troubled Asset relief Program (TArP) | Mandatory program | 0 | 247 | 0 | |||||||||
| 7 | Additional financial stabilization efforts | Other | 0 | 250 | 0 | |||||||||
| 8 | Other mandatory programs | Mandatory program | 411 | 673 | 571 | |||||||||
| 9 | Net interest | Other | 253 | 139 | 164 | |||||||||
| 10 | Disaster costs | Other | 0 | 4 | 11 |
I love the fact that he is cutting these expenses... but it means little if he spends so much more elsewhere.
http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/datasets/2009-united-states-budget/versions/1
