Thursday, October 22, 2009

Another way of thinking about government spending

The United States Federal budget is mind bogglingly big. The 2010 $3.5 trillion budget is beyond the ability of many of us to even comprehend.

Byron Schlomach in an article on Following Arizona's money writes:

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Nine hundred and twenty dollars per second. That's how fast Arizona's state government spends our tax money.
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Wow! Many of us don't make $920 a week.


I just ran the numbers for the Federal budget. The US Federal goverment is spending per $1,109,842 per second, every second, second after second. Wow! Double wow!


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