{"id":5976,"date":"2016-11-10T20:24:04","date_gmt":"2016-11-11T01:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=5976"},"modified":"2020-02-10T20:32:42","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T01:32:42","slug":"updated-federal-budget-distribution-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=5976","title":{"rendered":"Updated Federal Budget Distribution &#8211; 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d published a breakout of the federal budget &#8230; and thought I&#8217;d update the pie charts with the 2016 budget numbers. Again, there&#8217;s discretionary spending &#8212; spending from appropriation bills and the full budget which includes spending for things like <span class=\"st\">Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid which vary depending on the number of recipients and how much each recipient is being paid. <\/span>This doesn&#8217;t mean the non-discretionary components couldn&#8217;t be changed &#8212; there&#8217;s been discussion of means testing Social Security payments and Medicare eligibility &#8212; but these changes are generally considered politically untenable (would you vote for the guy who just reduced your SS cheque because you happened to have a pension or money saved in a retirement account?).<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the full budget breakout, updated for 2016<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?attachment_id=5977\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5977\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-5977\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/2016FullBudget-1024x658.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"617\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/2016FullBudget-1024x658.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/2016FullBudget-300x193.png 300w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/2016FullBudget-768x493.png 768w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/2016FullBudget-750x482.png 750w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/2016FullBudget.png 1127w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And the discretionary budget<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?attachment_id=5979\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5979\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-5979\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/2016DiscretionaryBudget-1024x714.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"669\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/2016DiscretionaryBudget-1024x714.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/2016DiscretionaryBudget-300x209.png 300w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/2016DiscretionaryBudget-768x535.png 768w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/2016DiscretionaryBudget-750x523.png 750w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/2016DiscretionaryBudget.png 1202w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d published a breakout of the federal budget &#8230; and thought I&#8217;d update the pie charts with the 2016 budget numbers. Again, there&#8217;s discretionary spending &#8212; spending from appropriation bills and the full budget which includes spending for things like Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid which vary depending on the number of recipients and how &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[81],"class_list":["post-5976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-us-government","tag-federal-budget"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5980,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5976\/revisions\/5980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}