Understand the budget changes

[Tom Dunlap]

This graph makes the budget changes much easier to understand.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/02/01/us/budget.html

 

[BostonBull]

Cool chart, sad to see giant gains on MediCare and SS.

Section 8 housing, food stamps, and other welfare programs had double digit gains for the most part.

Special ED, and ED for disadvantaged is way down, education in general should have had a bigger block, IMO.



Cool graph!

 

[tomthetreeman]

Is it me, or is that just TMI? Nice graph, but I'm not writing a thesis right now! That gave me a headache!

-Tom

 

[Tom Dunlap]

I found that the complexities of the budget were easiest to understand...but still overwhelming.

I'll bet that this graphic representation could be done for other years. In order to find a more realistic change in numbers it would be interesting to block the dollars spent. or not spent, in the past. Then, look at how much is being spent now.

Would it be a surprise if the dollars spent on the military would have gone up in the past? And, that the amount spent on social programs were decreased in similar percentages?

Double digit increases following double digit decreases still means a net loss.