# 2013 United States federal budget - $3.8 trillion (submitted 2012 by Former US Senator Obama)
# 2012 United States federal budget - $3.7 trillion (submitted 2011 by Former US Senator Obama)
# 2011 United States federal budget - $3.8 trillion (submitted 2010 by Former US Senator Obama)
# 2010 United States federal budget - $3.6 trillion (submitted 2009 by Former US Senator Obama)
# 2009 United States federal budget - $3.1 trillion (submitted 2008 by President Bush)
# 2008 United States federal budget - $2.9 trillion (submitted 2007 by President Bush)
# 2007 United States federal budget - $2.8 trillion (submitted 2006 by President Bush)
# 2006 United States federal budget - $2.7 trillion (submitted 2005 by President Bush)
# 2005 United States federal budget - $2.4 trillion (submitted 2004 by President Bush)
# 2004 United States federal budget - $2.3 trillion (submitted 2003 by President Bush)
# 2003 United States federal budget - $2.2 trillion (submitted 2002 by President Bush)
# 2002 United States federal budget - $2.0 trillion (submitted 2001 by President Bush)
# 2001 United States federal budget - $1.9 trillion (submitted 2000 by President Clinton)
# 2000 United States federal budget - $1.8 trillion (submitted 1999 by President Clinton)
Personally, I’d like to use the 2001 Clinton budget as a baseline. We have to pay interest on the debt that we permitted Bush and Obama to run up. We have to pay inflation-adjusted social security and retirement benefits and the agreed pay scales for federal workers (although we can and should cut the number of federal workers over the next few years, perhaps at half the rate of attrition - allow agencies to hire one person for every two that leave unless Congress specifically approves an exception based on a demonstrated need that justifies adding to the debt burden on the next generation). We have to pay for military systems in the pipeline to protect our country (unless we decide to cancel some of them). Otherwise, any new or increased spending since 2001 should be debated from the perspective of whether it is worth putting our children and grandchildren deeper in debt for that particular boondoggle to reward political donors. In almost all cases, including ObamaCare, the answer is “NO!”
Be careful posting this on FR. I was attacked repeatedly back in May when Paul Ryan first released his Heritage Foundation scam report of a budget proposal...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2705340/posts
Amongst freepers there is a large contingent of people who are “pro-military” who have no idea about any line items in the DoD budget... it’s like arguing with a wall of ignorance.
You’ll also find the “Don’t tax you, Don’t tax me, tax the man behind the tree” contingent.
Paul Ryan is OWNED by JPMorgan and the NYFED Board of Governors. Any mercy or benevolence granted by Ryan’s politicking upon the average taxpayer is a purely coincidental tangent to his representation of the banking industry’s wants and needs.
I mean owned, not just rented like most other politicians in the country.