Federal Budget fun

[Da Klugs]

Fun little site where you can tinker with the federal budget.


Budget Fun

[AAlmeter]

You're all welcome. $362 billion surplus....the refund checks are in the mail.

[SeanGAR]

Increased education, kept troops in Iraq (but they can reconstruct on their own dime), cut the BS and now we're a trillion ($1028.79 billion) in the black. Eliminated NASA .... sorry.

Scary how much they piss away.

[AAlmeter]

I'm partial to tang.

[cmiller]

Originally Posted by SeanGAR

Increased education, kept troops in Iraq (but they can reconstruct on their own dime), cut the BS and now we're a trillion ($1028.79 billion) in the black. Eliminated NASA .... sorry.

Scary how much they piss away.

I just did the high level one, I'll try the detailed one later. But NASA?


Would be interested to see everyone post their changes, just to see how each of us perceive the need for different things.

[SeanGAR]

Originally Posted by AAlmeter

I'm partial to tang.

Never invented for or by NASA (ditto Velcro, Teflon) but used in early space flight. You'll be OK.

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/030307.html

[IHT]

stuck, cuz i like the topic.

[Jeff]

I agree Sean. NASA is one of the biggest wastes of money. How the hell can they be planning a mission to Mars when our federal deficit is larger than any other country in the world?

[carbonbased_al]

Originally Posted by Jeff

I agree Sean. NASA is one of the biggest wastes of money. How the hell can they be planning a mission to Mars when our federal deficit is larger than any other country in the world?

Because going to Mars will obviously solve our deficit problems

[IHT]

i agree that it seems stupid to pay so many smart guys to sit around and do nothing but think stuff up....
but we pay a lot of single moms to sit around and make babies, too.

i agree that we should ax NASA by a large margin. if they spot a big asteroid coming at us, bruce willis won't be able to save us.

[Da Klugs]

Originally Posted by IHT

i agree that it seems stupid to pay so many smart guys to sit around and do nothing but think stuff up....
but we pay a lot of single moms to sit around and make babies, too.

i agree that we should ax NASA by a large margin. if they spot a big asteroid coming at us, bruce willis won't be able to save us.

Yes but they might give us enough time to chain smoke all the "special smokes" we hoard for later.

[DrStrangelove]

I've doubled the funding for NASA, atomic defense, foreign information gathering, education, transportation, the EPA, the national forest service, bureau of land managment, national parks service, the primary, secondary, and higher education, community and regional development.

I've also increased the surplus to 471billion. All I had to do was roll back every tax cut and expenditure available.




Does that make me a democrat or a concensus builder?

[SeanGAR]

Originally Posted by IHT

but we pay a lot of single moms to sit around and make babies, too.

I cut all of that crap out as well. No more freebies.

[RumblePen]

But you can't get rid of NASA! Just think of all the new advancements in Tempur-Pedic Swedish Sleep Systems that could be in store for us in the future.

[icehog3]

Originally Posted by Jeff

I agree Sean. NASA is one of the biggest wastes of money. How the hell can they be planning a mission to Mars when our federal deficit is larger than any other country in the world?

I hear there are unlimited bacon supplies on Mars. That alone is reason to save NASA.