D.C. Decoder 101: How Washington spends your money (via The Christian Science Monitor)
The federal government is the biggest spender in the US, and maybe the world. How big? So big that in 2011 Washington laid out a cool $3.6 trillion. (Not million, not billion, but trillion, with a “T”.) So big that its budget is equal to about 20 percent of the nation’s entire gross domestic product…
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