*Kleptocracy
NEW STATISTICS
"HHS is the largest line item in the federal budget at over 700-billion last year, much of the expense going towards weakening the marriage market or attempting to Humpty-Dumpty the downstream wreckage." Full Story

Which identical $700 Billion figure is how much we are sending to our enemy foreign oil suppliers, currently being called "The largest transfer of wealth in the history of mankind" and "a threat to the American way of life".

Is anybody paying attention?

More Statistics

The United States spent $553 billion on public elementary and secondary education in 2006 & 2007, which is 4.2 percent of gross domestic product. (From Does Spending More on Education Improve Academic Achievement?" Heritage Foundation, September 8, 2008)

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Cost of the War in Iraq

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(These are all OLD stats from 6 to 8 years ago)

"Child Abuse Prevention" Costs at LEAST
$285 Billion per Year
 Figures confirmed by Census Bureau

  For comparison- 

1-Americans spent $110 Billion in Fast Food Restaurants in 2000 

2-Wal-Mart is now the world's biggest corporation, having passed ExxonMobil for the top slot.  It hauls off a stunning $220 billion a year (more in revenues than the entire GDP of Israel and Ireland combined).

3- The annual cost of REGULATION to the US National Economy- $843 BILLION

4- The "cost" to Americans for the corrupt legal system- $300 Billion

Money Spent on the War On Drugs this Year
As of September 17, 2008
Federal
State
Total

Do you see were several TRILLION DOLLARS could be cut?

The Pharmacaust-
From Dr. Mercola.com

It’s difficult to fathom the immense power of the pharmaceutical industry at times, but consider this: The global market for pharmaceuticals was worth more than $693 billion in 2007.

It is expected to increase to over $737 billion in 2008 and will top $1.0 trillion by 2013.

To put these mind-boggling numbers into a larger perspective, the pharmaceutical industry was worth more money in 2007 than the gross domestic product (GDP) – which is the market value of all the output produced in a nation in one year -- of these COUNTRIES, according to statistics from the World Bank:

In fact, if placed on the list ranking the countries of the world according to gross domestic product, the pharmaceutical industry would rank number 17 out of 185 countries in 2007!

America's tort system costs $865 Billion...That is $9.827 per year for a family of four - "Jackpot Justice: The True Cost of America's Tort System", Pacific Research Institute, March 2007

Obama bill: $845 billion more for global poverty
Democrat sponsors act OK'd by Senate panel that would cost 0.7% of gross national product 
Posted: February 14, 2008 3:53 pm Eastern 
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