Posted by
darrelmulloy on Monday, January 21, 2008 8:44:00 PM
Liberals think we spend too much money on our military and not enough for welfare here at home.
The 2008 federal budget gives quite a different picture. As in past years, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has a budget that is substantially larger than the Department of Defense (DoD).
Even while we are at war, so to speak, in Iraq and Afghanistan, the DoD budget is over $100 billion less than HHS. That amount in itself is more than any other cabinet department has for a total budget, with no other departments exceeding $100 billion.
The HHS budget for 2008 is an astonishing $700 billion, while Defense gets "only" $586 billion.
It is quite plain from the budget figures, that we are spending too much on welfare here at home, and maybe not enough on building our military strength.
It becomes pretty clear how this country could survive without an income tax when you consider how much waste there is in just HHS, but ad the Department of Education ($58.6 billion), Homeland Security ($43.2 billion), Housing and Urban Development ($32 billion), Environmental Protective Agency ($7.8 billion), Department of Labor ($52.3 billion), Department of Agriculture ($89 billion), and Department of Energy ($23 billion), it's like old Ev Dirksen used to say, "a billion dollars here and a billion dollars there, pretty soon your talking about real money". For those of you not old enough to remember, Everett Dirksen was a Republican senator from Illinois.
For those critics of Ron Paul's plan to eliminate the income tax and replace it with nothing, I would ask you to consider the numbers above, and then claim that we could not cut back government to a level that it was in 1997.
Source: http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2008/