In summary, (the center flag-decked circle), of the $ 1.4 Trillion discretionary Total, militarism and nationalistic (patriotic) defensive propaganda wastes 63%. That's $ 1.0 Trillion per year to maintain folks loving this country and fearing USGovt.

Gosh, a fella could almost think folks might naturally love this country with the human heart and fear not the USGovt with the ballot ... without expended tax dollars wasted unnecessarily against the grain of humankindness for achieving the opposite and unnatural effects.

Of course, buying the fear and selling patriotism is instead of and why we canNOT afford $ 1.0 Trillion for 'health care' per TWENTY years.

A budget is a budget big or small, corporate or personal we still have to make decisions on what we think are our priorieties as a nation. We must make decisions without outside pressures from those with an ideaological ax to grind or something to gain. We the people should have a greater say on how our money is spent, divied up. We have an out of control system people and need to reel it in.

Tensky
Have you considered?

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Tax receipts are on pace to drop 18 percent this year, the biggest
single-year decline since the Great Depression, while the federal
deficit balloons to a record $1.8 trillion. Other figures in an
Associated Press analysis underscore the recession's impact:
Individual income tax receipts are down 22 percent from a year ago.
Corporate income taxes are down 57 percent. Social Security tax
receipts could drop for only the second time since 1940, and Medicare
taxes are on pace to drop for only the third time ever. The last time
the government's revenues were this bleak, the year was 1932 in the
midst of the Depression.

When it comes to killing people it doesn't like, the Republican Party is willing to spend any amount -- budget be damned. But trying to improve the lot of the average person in America? Then they're all counting the pennies.

True enough Jack. Both parties have a fiscal blindspot for their priorities.

But criticizing the party in control should not be equated with praising the minority.

We can waste hours arguing about whether Coke tastes better than Pepsi, but the fact is that they have both been killing us for years with high fructose corn syrup.