What are the priorties of the united States budget?
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Defense, being a superpower has the major economical factors of meaning large army.\n\nNow for this, other thigns suffer, such as Health and Education, meaning that as a whole the society will stagnate as new ideas can't spread through education and Health is the way you keep people around to remember the old.
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Here's the timetable:\n1.First Monday in February - President submits budget to Congress. \n2.Feb 15 - Congressional Budget Office submits economic and budget outlook report to Budget Committees.\n3.Six weeks after President submits budget -  Committees submit views and estimates to Budget Committees. \n4.April 1 - Senate Budget Committee reports budget resolution.\n5.April 15 - Congress completes action on budget \nresolution.  \n6.May 15 - Annual appropriations bills may be considered in the House, even if action on budget resolution has not been completed. \n7.June 10 - House Appropriations Committee reports last annual appropriations bill. \n8.June 15 - House completes action on reconciliation legislation (if required by budget resolution). \n9.June 30 - House completes action on annual appropriations bills. \n10.July 15 - President submits mid-session review of his budget to Congress. \n11.October 1 - Fiscal year begins.
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Recommend Budget\nIn charge of state agencies\nPlan the future of the stae\nCoordinates state/federal/local gov't\nFills vacancies\nPrepares ballot title\nWritten opinion of laws\nInvestigation\nCharitable trust
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It depends on how you define budget surplus.  If you ask any real economist, then the US hasn't had a budget surplus since 1960.\n\nTypically, politicians will define the budget as annual tax inflow, including Social Security tax revenue, and subtract from that number the annual total dollar outflow, including Social Security benefits.  The net result in the 1998-2000 for this calculation was a positive number so they called it a budget surplus.  There's a catch, though.\n\nFunds flowing in and out of the Social Security Trust Fund are by law supposed to be kept separate from the rest of government spending.  If we take away the Social Security Trust Fund, we actually ran a deficit for those years, except for 1999 where we had a .7B surplus.\n\nMost economists will say that we should have a budget surplus during the good years of the economy and a deficit during the bad years to try and revive the economy.  However, we've only had 1 surplus since 1960.  Not exactly optimal.\n\nIn 1982, Alan Greenspan recommended the increase in Social Security tax because we would need it to fund the Baby Boomers that are going to retire later on.  After a few years, this worked and Social Security was running a surplus to start stocking up for the later need, which is expected to happen around 2015 when SS is expected to run a deficit again.\n\nWhat has been happening every year is that instead of leaving it for later like we're supposed to in order to pay for later SS benefits, the government has been borrowing from that surplus.  For example, in 1998, the actual deficit (not including SS) was around 30B.  We "borrowed" the 99.2B surplus from SS to pay for expenses and then reported that as a 69.2B surplus.\n\nIf you actually take a look at the national debt numbers, you'll see it.  At the end of 1997, the debt was 5.37 trillion.  At the end of 1998, it was 5.48 trillion.  Obviously, if we really had a surplus, this wouldn't have happened.\n\nIt basically looks great for the politicians to report a better budget than what really happens.  But down the line, around 2020 or later, SS is going to go bankrupt because all of that savings that Alan Greenspan envisioned is getting spent every year.\n\nThe short answer is that he didn't really without using fancy accounting techniques, except in 1999, which was the absolute peak of the economy so tax revenue increased greatly.  It's nothing against Clinton.  Both Republicans and Democrats have been doing the same thing because it looks better for them if the budget looks better.  Down the road, it's the common citizen that is going to face the consequences for our spending today.
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1.  Vice President\n   2. Speaker of the House\n   3. President Pro Tempore of the Senate\n   4. Secretary of State\n   5. Secretary of the Treasury\n   6. Secretary of Defense\n   7. Attorney General\n   8. Secretary of the Interior\n   9. Secretary of Agriculture\n  10. Secretary of Commerce\n  11. Secretary of Labor\n  12. Secretary of Health and Human Services\n  13. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development\n  14. Secretary of Transportation\n  15. Secretary of Energy\n  16. Secretary of Education\n  17. Secretary of Veterans Affairs
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None. Alphabetically, the list goes right from Arkansas to California.
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Foreign National Debt is above 3 trillion at record levels so I say no. Current US fiscal policy is designed to move wealth to the upper class from the middle class. The government does not seem to want to protect the majority of its people but thats what we deserve for voting in these leaders.
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Not real sure what you want?\n\nTry looking at The United States Bill Of Rights.\n\nFree - speech, religion, right to trial, right of privacy, right to own property, etc.
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G'day Usman,\n\nThank you for your question.\n\nMobile finances.\n\nRegards
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United States Gov./treasury
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You are asking questions about things that are not paid for out of the same budgets.\n\nThe United States federal goverments first, and basically only job when this country was created was defense.  \n\nUntil recent times - Defense was the largest percentage of the total federal budget by far.\n\nAs time has gone on other things have been added to it. Including what takes up the majority of the Federal Budget these days.  These things that have been added are "required spending" budget items.  These are things that no matter what - they have to be paid.  This includes Social Security, Medicare, Medicade, interest, payroll, and other such expenses that deal with the day to day operation of the Federal government.\n\nDefense comes out of what is called discretionary spending.  As would anything the Feds spend on Education.\n\nTo answer your question directly - defense is about 20 percent, and Medicare/Medicaid (health) combined are going to also be about 20 percent.  Education is going to come out of the rest of the discretionary budget - not sure what it is off the top of my head - but its a very small percentage.\n\nSource 2 below has the info from the above paragraph - source 1 is the page that pdf came from, which has alot of other charts and graphs put out the US House of Representatives.\n\nSource 3 covers some historical data on the Defense spending.\n\nDefense is only paid for by the Feds.\n\nEducation on the other hand is going to be paid for by each state.  So to answer that question - you would have to look at each state.  There is many other Health Care programs that are paid for at the state level also - again - not something that can be answered here - way to many different things.\n\nBasically - the Feds pay for Social Security, Defense, Medicare, Medicaid, and things that cross states borders like Interstates.  They also spend large chunks of change on things like Disaster Relief.  \n\nStates pay for Education.\n\n.. and for the most part - employers pay for Health Care in this country.
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Defense spending is one of the top priorities of the Federal Government. Defense should not take a rest because of "peacetime". Our enemies will always continue to upgrade their abilities, whether there is a declared war or not. We cannot fall asleep at the switch.\n\nIf someone wants budget cuts, take it from art grants, charity handouts and other things that are not within the realm of what the Federal Government was set up to be.
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Budget, Budget, Budget.  You need to sit down and write up a budget.  If it ain't on the list and isn't absolutely required then it ain't gettin' done.  As you get used to this each pay period you'll get better at listing everything and estimating bills.  As you go through the month you'll be surprised at how much you'll be tempted to spend on non-requirements.  Make sure you factor in entertainment and food into your budget.  Budget is not a dirty word.  After you do it a few times you'll see it's not a burden.  BTW, get rid of that car or pay if off ASAP.  Alot of people retire poor because they always have a car payment.
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You can start with the U.S. Constitution. It will tell you what powers each branch has, how each branch is selected, and who qualifies for each branch.
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Bush budget cuts food program for pregnant women and infants.  According to the Los Angeles Times, “Another program new to Bush’s hit list is the Agriculture Department's commodity supplemental food program, which provides food packages to low-income elderly people, pregnant women and infants.” (2/6/06)  One in five children in America live in relative poverty yet President Bush proposes cutting this program that provides food packages for mothers, children, and seniors.  President Bush’s budget would also weaken the Women, Infant, and Children nutrition program\n\nBush budget cuts funding for children.  From health care to child care, President Bush’s budget underserves America’s children:\n\n    * Cuts funding for children’s health care.  “Mr. Bush will propose eliminating programs to treat people with traumatic brain injuries and to improve emergency medical services for children.” (New York Times, 2/5/06)\n    * Cuts to children’s hospitals.  Free-standing children’s hospitals depend upon the federal government to support the training of health professionals.  But the President has proposed to cut the Children’s Hospitals Graduate Medical Education (GME) program by $198 million – from $297 million in Fiscal Year 2006 to $99 million in Fiscal Year 2007. \n    * Cuts to child care assistance.  The Bush budget also calls for $1.03 billion in child care funding cuts over the next five years, denying more than 400,000 children from receiving child care in 2011 as compared to 2005 levels. (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)  \n\nBush budget proposes the largest education cut in the history of our country. Tuition and fees have increased 57 percent for a public four-year college and 32 percent for a private four-year college since 2000.  Despite this growing concern for students and their families, the President’s budget freezes the maximum Pell Grant award at $4,050, the same level as 2003.  Failure to increase Pell Grants is weakening the value of these grants:  in 1975, a Pell Grant covered 80 percent of the cost of a public four-year college education while today it covers only about 40 percent.  The President’s budget also proposes to eliminate the Perkins loan program, which provides low-interest, fixed-rate loans for students with financial need, and plans to recall the federal portion of revolving funds collected by participating institutions.  Furthermore, the President’s budget would eliminate the Leveraging Educational Assistance Partnership (LEAP) program, which provides a federal match to states for need-based grant and work-study assistance. \n\nBush budget eliminates Social Security death benefits.  The Bush budget would eliminate the $255 death benefit provided by Social Security to the families of those who die.  While modest, this benefit is important to many families who need assistance in order to bury their loved ones with dignity.Bush budget cuts job training programs.  At a time of uncertainty for so many American workers, the Bush budget proposes to cut funding for critical job training programs.  These cuts could not come at a worse time for working mothers, young women starting out their careers, and their families.  For example, the Bush budget would cut funding for:\n\n    * Job training and employment services by $695 million (eight percent);\n    * Dislocated worker employment and training programs by $223 million (17 percent);\n    * Adult employment and training activities by $145 million (17 percent);\n    * Youth training programs by $100 million (11 percent); and\n    * The Job Corps program, an education and job training program to help young people start their careers, by $55 million (over three percent) and rescind $75 million of un-obligated Job Corps construction funds. This is just some of the buget cuts that are happening with Bush!!
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The fiscal year 2006 budget is $2.70 trillion. That grows to $2.77 trillion in fiscal year 2007 and $3.24 billion by fiscal year 2011.
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Here ya go!\n\nhttp://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/facts/funddocs/billeng.htm\n\nMake them into flash cards on index cards and go from there.