These Guys Are Counting On No One Paying Attention To What They Are Doing.

[David]

The U.S. Congress sets a federal budget every year in the trillions of dollars. Few people know how much money that is so we created a breakdown of federal spending in simple terms. Let’s put the 2011 federal budget into perspective:

U.S. income: $2,170,000,000,000

• Federal budget: $3,820,000,000,000
  
• New debt: $ 1,650,000,000,000
  
• National debt: $14,271,000,000,000
  
• Recent budget cut: $ 38,500,000,000 (about 1 percent of the budget)
  

It helps to think about these numbers in terms that we can relate to. Therefore, let’s remove eight zeros from these numbers and pretend this is the household budget for the fictitious Jones family:

• Total annual income for the Jones family: $21,700
  
• Amount of money the Jones family spent: $38,200
  
• Amount of new debt added to the credit card: $16,500
  
• Outstanding balance on the credit card: $142,710
  
• Amount cut from the budget: $385
  

[mowerman]

ya,,,,and dont forget this is the same orginization,thats running the post office,thats 8 billion dollars in the hole every year.and the same orginization,that wants to run your healthcare,now.hahahaha,,,ya that otta work out slick.bob

[HeavyGunner]

No kidding! Here at our local post office the LOCAL mail has to be drove 96 miles away to our nearest auto-sorter get sorted (now mind you this is a town of less then 800 people, and sorting would mean simply picking up a letter and putting it in the right recieptients box) and then get driven back another 130 miles to the nearest hub to us then another 60 miles back to us. Like you said Bob these idiots wonder why they are broke and wanting to run healthcare...Scary.

[mowerman]

No kidding! Here at our local post office the LOCAL mail has to be drove 96 miles away to our nearest auto-sorter get sorted (now mind you this is a town of less then 800 people, and sorting would mean simply picking up a letter and putting it in the right recieptients box) and then get driven back another 130 miles to the nearest hub to us then another 60 miles back to us. Like you said Bob these idiots wonder why they are broke and wanting to run healthcare...Scary.

ya,,,man theres a perfect example,,and now thier pissing thru all our social security,for thier little pet programs,,and when it comes time to collect your retirement,,they will simply say,,sorry,we used it all,dont know what to tell you,,,but dont forget me,at voting time.lol.bob

[HeavyGunner]

ya,,,man theres a perfect example,,and now thier pissing thru all our social security,for thier little pet programs,,and when it comes time to collect your retirement,,they will simply say,,sorry,we used it all,dont know what to tell you,,,but dont forget me,at voting time.lol.bob

Yep, that's why I am a firm believer in not giving politicians any better benefits than the regular citizen gets. If their healthcare and retirement depended on medicare and SS I guarantee they wouldnt be "borrowing it" or giving it away to illegals and welfare rats. People better wake up before we a have an irreversible crash.

[41chevy]

ya,,,,and dont forget this is the same orginization,thats running the post office,thats 8 billion dollars in the hole every year.and the same orginization,that wants to run your healthcare,now.hahahaha,,,ya that otta work out slick.bob

The post office has asked Congress to drop the requirement that it make a $5.5 billion annual payment into a general government fund to cover future retirement disability benefits. No other government agency is required to make such a payment.

This is one reason the P.O. is in the red. The Feds see the P.O. as a cash cow like our S.S. Paul

[mowerman]

The post office has asked Congress to drop the requirement that it make a $5.5 billion annual payment into a general government fund to cover future retirement disability benefits. No other government agency is required to make such a payment.

This is one reason the P.O. is in the red. The Feds see the P.O. as a cash cow like our S.S. Paul

oooooohhhhhh,welll thats very interesting...same ole BS..robbing peter to pay paul..wow,,..on a happier note,,,going to hot august nites,here in reno to enjoy abuncha antique cars,and trucks..they tell me 6000 vehicles registered here this summer.woohoo.talk to ya soon...seeya paul

[41chevy]

Yep, that's why I am a firm believer in not giving politicians any better benefits than the regular citizen gets. If their healthcare and retirement depended on medicare and SS I guarantee they wouldnt be "borrowing it" or giving it away to illegals and welfare rats. People better wake up before we a have an irreversible crash.

Read up on the unlimited power the "super senate" has for any change they see fit. That is going to be abused...Health care, taxes, treaties, gun control ,the enviroment anything they deem improtant to "save us" Best to read up on their power, it ain't just budget.... Paul

[RowdyRebel]