God Save America

 Researchers at The Heritage Foundation have upgraded a vital offering—“Federal Revenue and Spending: A Book of Charts”—making it easier than ever to track the deteriorating condition of the federal budget.

The chart book, which debuted in 2003, features updated data and new charts that address projected federal spending. Researchers at Heritage, a Washington-based think tank, also have reconfigured several charts and graphs for even greater clarity. To view the new version online, go to www.heritage.org and enter “budget chart book” in the search function.

The chart book’s easy-to-grasp comparisons of current, historical and future spending and revenues make it a data-rich resource for those interested in the understanding the budget process, from members of Congress and their staffs to reporters and public-policy students.

The charts have been prepared by researchers in Heritage’s Center for Data Analysis, which houses one of the largest privately held collections of public policy-related databases in the nation, and Heritage’s Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies. The entire book may be downloaded in pdf or PowerPoint format, and each chart can be downloaded individually.

The section on federal revenue explains where the federal government has gotten its money since 1960, how those major sources of revenue have changed over the years and the growth in spending as measured per-taxpayer and per-household.

More ominously, the section on projected spending shows how spending has grown over the last 40 years and the bleak budgetary future that awaits if Congress fails to reform entitlements and rein in federal spending. Other charts illustrate how mandatory spending, if left unchecked, will squeeze out nearly all discretionary spending in the next 50 years.

“Those who need to know where the federal governments gets its money and how fast it spends it will find this site useful and the additions a nice improvement,” says Alison Acosta Fraser, director of the Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies at Heritage. “It presents key data in a clear, easy-to-understand format that lets people see the urgent need for budget and spending reform.”

A credit union is opening new politically correct offices in D.C. for foreigners and illegal aliens!
What is wrong with this picture?

Cross-posted from The Epistolizer

By Frederick Meekins

Interesting how when Americans go to place money in an account of an established financial institution, one has to produce multiple forms of identification such as driving permits, social security numbers, and credit cards.

Withdrawing these funds is an even greater ordeal as, not only does one have to produce the collection of ID’s, one is burdened with the additional responsibility of having to justify why one desires to take repossession of one’s own money. And if one wishes to extract more than an arbitrary limited amount, Big Brother must often be informed that one is doing so.

However, a new credit union is opening in Washington, DC for the purposes of serving the area’s expanding population of illegal aliens. This raises a number of issues and questions.

Foremost, will the individuals utilizing the service and those providing it be subject to the same kind of identification requirements imposed upon actual Americans since it is stated in the story how applicants will be permitted to use foreign identification? Interesting how this will be allowed when American’s have to submit to everything just short of a rectal exam (and it was predicted on “Futurama” that down the road one would be required to have a “colonic map” on file) in the name of homeland security and preventing terrorism, but if one happens to be from one of the protected groups more prone to commit subversion one is granted a waver in these matters.

Secondly, this credit union is being marketed to appeal to Hispanics. Would regulators allow for the establishment of a parallel institution that had no qualms about letting it be known that its founders preferred or only wanted Caucasian money?

Few Americans will have the courage to addresses these issues because of the torrents of criticism that inevitably follow from doing so. However, if valiant patriots do not do so soon, the precious heritage of citizenship will become virtually meaningless in the years to come as leftists conspire to ply their system of double standards where equality before the law will be abolished in favor of a system of racial spoils and set asides compelling all within such a domain to bow as peons of the elite.