Department of agriculture: 22.6 billion
Department of Defense: 526.6 billion
Intelligence: 48.2 billion
Department of Education: 71.2 billion
Department of Energy: 28.4 billion
Department of Homeland Security: 39 billion
Department of Health Services: 80.1 billion
Department of Housing: 47.6 billion
Department of Justice: 27.6 billion
Department of Labor: 12.9 billion
Environmental Protection Agency: 8.2 billion
Social Security: 12.3 billion
I’m missing a couple like treasury and foreign spending and Department of Commerce but what I wanted to show here is where America’s priorities are. I know I’m preaching to the choir but it’s important to remind yourself constantly what you’re fighting.
Just made a graph out of this:
Would be great if you could give some source for this — putting some kind of source in the corner of a graph makes it seem more trustworthy.
Can you order the graph by most to least spending? It would make the numbers more ordered and easier to understand
The source is probably this pdf: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BUDGET-2014-BUD/pdf/BUDGET-2014-BUD.pdf, governments release their balance every year… well, at least the numbers you know of. The CIA black sites are not going to show up in there.
Sure, here it is:
I also made a slightly different format here, maybe this looks more compact:
It’d would be cool if these could be done about China. Maybe also about Germany and the UK, and then Vietnam, to compare some others in the socialist and capitalist camp. Would also be fun to see how much the Defense spending was in the USSR.
I’m absolutely terrible at finding sources and data, but any of you finds it for me, I’ll draw the graph.
If the goal is to compare, it’s also necessary to account for country budget size (? maybe I’m using the wrong word, I hope you understand what I mean). I could imagine, for example, Germany spend less on “Defense” just because of having less budget to spend.
Thanks, this is great! It’s going into my commie folder. Never know when I might need it.
Really shows the priorities, environment and labour rights are all at the bottom and defense spending complete eclipses everything else. In fact every budget added together doesn’t even come close to the defense spending by itself (still lacking 128 billion $)
Good data but if it could be organized in order from most to least I think that would make comparisons easier
