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Trillions and Trillions Spent

  • By: FW Staff
  • 02/04/2008

Over the American Spectator, Jim Antle is none too happy with the new budget:

President Bush is sending Congress the first $3 trillion federal budget. This is not many years after proposing the first $2 trillion budget. We passed the $1 trillion mark for the first time back in 1987.

Boy, it’s a good thing we have Republican presidents keeping federal spending under control.

According to Fox News, the new budget runs up the deficit, which had been on the decline, as well. One of the culprits? You guessed it: The $145 billion "stimulus" package, about which I’ve already said a thing or two.

If you’re the kind of person who just can’t look away from a train wreck, FreedomWorks now has an online tool that breaks down the budget into its various parts–what each department gets, and how each department spends their money.  For example, here are the stats for the Dept. of Labor, to which the budget dedicates a whopping $53 billion of taxpayer money for its operations this year:

 Department of Labor $ 53,131,000,000 Increase over FY 2008 8.2 %

  •  Bureau of Labor Statistics $ 515,000,000
    •  Salaries and Expenses $ 515,000,000
  •  Department of Labor $ -3,640,000,000
    •  All Other General Fund Proprietary Receipts Including Budget Clearing Accounts $ -28,000,000
    •  Interest on Investments, Panama Canal Commission $ -6,000,000
    •  Foreign Labor Certification Processing Fee $ -95,000,000
    •  Deposits by Federal Agencies to the Federal Employees Compensation Account, Unemployment Trust Fund $ -786,000,000
    •  CMIA Interest, Unemployment Trust Fund $ -3,000,000
    •  Interest on Unemployment Insurance Loans to States, Federal Unemployment Account, Unemployment Trust Fund $ -10,000,000
    •  Miscellaneous Interest, Black Lung Disability Trust Fund $ -2,000,000
    •  Payment from the General Fund for Prepayment Premium, Black Lung Disability Trust Fund $ -2,710,000,000
  •  Departmental Management $ 2,858,000,000
    •  Salaries and Expenses $ 61,000,000
    •  Emergency Steel, Oil, and Gas Guaranteed Loan Program Account $ -49,000,000
    •  HCHB Renovation and Modernization $ 7,000,000
    •  Office of the Inspector General $ 25,000,000
    •  National Intellectual Property Law Enforcement Coordination Council $ 1,000,000
    •  Gifts and Bequests $ 1,000,000
    •  Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology $ 18,000,000
    •  Office for Civil Rights $ 37,000,000
    •  Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund $ 1,396,000,000
    •  General Departmental Management $ 374,000,000
    •  Office of the Inspector General $ 76,000,000
    •  Veterans Employment and Training $ 33,000,000
    •  Salaries and Expenses $ 263,000,000
    •  Office of Disability Employment Policy $ 12,000,000
    •  Working Capital Fund $ 3,000,000
    •  Office for Civil Rights $ 101,000,000
    •  Program Administration $ 444,000,000
    •  Office of the Inspector General $ 55,000,000
  •  Employee Benefits Security Administration $ 148,000,000
    •  Salaries and Expenses $ 148,000,000
  •  Employment and Training Administration $ 49,453,000,000
    •  Program Administration $ 96,000,000
    •  Training and Employment Services $ 3,111,000,000
    •  Training and Employment Services $ 125,000,000
    •  Community Service Employment for Older Americans $ 350,000,000
    •  State Unemployment Insurance and Employment Service Operations $ 17,000,000
    •  Foreign Labor Certification Administration $ 78,000,000
    •  Foreign Labor Certification Administration $ 13,000,000
    •  Office of Job Corps $ 1,565,000,000
    •  Federal Unemployment Benefits and Allowances $ 260,000,000
    •  Federal Unemployment Benefits and Allowances $ 705,000,000
    •  Advances to the Unemployment Trust Fund and Other Funds $ 2,710,000,000
    •  Foreign Labor Certification Processing $ 95,000,000
    •  Unemployment Trust Fund $ 334,000,000
    •  Unemployment Trust Fund $ 2,642,000,000
    •  Unemployment Trust Fund $ 37,352,000,000
  •  Employment Standards Administration $ 5,434,000,000
    •  Salaries and Expenses $ 436,000,000
    •  Salaries and Expenses $ 31,000,000
    •  Special Benefits for Disabled Coal Miners $ 250,000,000
    •  Special Benefits $ 3,000,000
    •  Special Benefits $ 150,000,000
    •  Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Fund $ 942,000,000
    •  Administrative Expenses, Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Fund $ 108,000,000
    •  Panama Canal Commission Compensation Fund $ 6,000,000
    •  Black Lung Disability Trust Fund $ 3,362,000,000
    •  Special Workers’ Compensation Expenses $ 2,000,000
    •  Special Workers’ Compensation Expenses $ 144,000,000
  •  Mine Safety and Health Administration $ 332,000,000
    •  Salaries and Expenses $ 332,000,000
  •  Occupational Safety and Health Administration $ 502,000,000

More cringe-inducing budget breakdown here.

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