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Forum: Internet Links Topic: Hay guyz it's the FY2012 federal budget started by: GORDON Posted by GORDON on Jul. 15 2011,09:58
< 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. Posted by TPRJones on Jul. 15 2011,10:15
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.
Posted by TPRJones on Jul. 15 2011,10:17
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 > Posted by Malcolm on Jul. 16 2011,13:12
QUOTE 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? QUOTE Two years after those dark days, the stock market is booming. Corporations are posting record profits. Momentum is building. Is it now? QUOTE A decade of deficits, compounded by the effects of the recession and the steps we had to take to break it, QUOTE 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. QUOTE 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 >. |