BUDGET BRIEFER
2014 BUDGET
EXPENDITURES-(3777 Billion)
Social Security-Unemployment-Labor-33%
Medicare-Health Care—25%
Military—17%
Interest 5%
Vet Benefits-4%
Transportation—4%
Food-Agriculture—4%
Housing-2%
Education- 2%
Energy % Environment-1%
International Affairs-1%
Service-1%
Government 1%

REVENUE—(3033 Billlion)
Individual Income Tax-46%
Payroll Tax—34%
Corporate—11%
Misc 5%
Excise—3%
Custom duties—1%

Deficit-744 Billion—(2008 Budget last one under 1000B Deficit)
Recall fuss over Bush not budgeting two wars? 20143 Budget does not include Afghan War funding
Why cannot we pay our way with a 14,000B Income and 3777 outlays? Simple. Most of Income is at top and they have power ($$$$) to control Congress. Yes! They pay Most but lesser part (%) of income.
Source:OMB.GOV

Interesting that the threat to humanity's survival posed by carbon-based global climate change is preceded by the death of meaningful journalism that accompanies acquisition of both print and electronic media by right wing billionaires.

What we are seeing today emerging from the pages of the Wall Street Journal is what we will see emerge from the pages of Los Angeles Times if the Koch brothers succeed in their quest to acquire the Tribune Company.

Oh, and Mr. Swinney @1, your right-wing deficit hawk mumblings are off topic and economically ill-timed.

You might try reading End This Depression Now by Nobel Prize winning economist, Paul Krugman.

Sad to say a lot of the denial is not a choice by the believer, it is a mental disorder known as dissociation.

We have had our share of visionaries who we have ignored at our peril:

"I would not say that such an attempt to apply psychoanalysis to civilized society would be fanciful or doomed to fruitlessness." - Sigmund Freud

“Insanity in individuals is something rare – but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

“The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

(MOMCOM's Dissociation). Some of our most revered are the ones who unwittingly brought this on us (The Universal Smedley).

We passed 400 PPM at a dangerously high rate of speed, a place that is ~90% toward the point of no return (~450 ppm) ... the place where the bridge to the future is out.

This is not just "weapons grade" denialism, but "weapon of mass destruction" denialism!

Wonder how Princeton students will respond to Happer's claptrap. One can only hope they will give him tons of shit. Require accountability for being suicidally stupid.