Monday, February 13, 2012

Where Entitlement Spending Goes

The next time your right wing blowhard uncle, or co-worker, or buddy tells you that the problem with the U.S.A. is that we have created a welfare state where everyone is dependent on the Feds and has no motivation to work, you can show them this chart:


For the record, the 10% left is about 5% of the total federal budget. Please share with said blowhards.
(via Kevin Drum)

1 comment:

FletcherDodge said...

I wonder what percentage of the "65 and up" goes to retired senators/representative lobbyist millionaires.

 

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