If you find it hard to keep track of what President Obama is proposing to spend for FY2011 ( which starts in November 2010), then pop on over to this helpful website to get a lot of detail into where the money is going. There are some shockers in there for sure:
-payments to service US debt ~$250billion!
-21% of budget goes for federal pensions, 24% for defense!
A great exercise might be to go through the thing and determine what the budget would be if the Federal Government only did those things the Constitution empowered it to do.
In fact, if some political candidate is asking for your vote for national office, you might ask them to do it!
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