This just released, an excerpt from the National Taxpayers Union Foundation:
NEW Spending by Category as Proposed by 2008 Presidential Candidates* (Dollar figures are in billions) | |||
| Type of Spending | John McCain | Barack Obama | |
| Economy, Transportation, and Infrastructure | $5.441 | $57.275 | |
| Education, Science, and Research | $7.353 | $34.795 | |
| Energy, Agriculture, and the Environment | $58.611 | $56.333 | |
| Health Care | $9.637 | $139.188 | |
| Homeland Security and Law Enforcement | $1.502 | $10.545 | |
| National Defense and International Relations | $22.562 | ($72.670) | |
| Veterans | $2.209 | $2.760 | |
| Miscellaneous | ($14.878) | $64.728 | |
| Grand Total | $92.437 | $292.954 | |
| Source: National Taxpayers Union Foundation calculations. * From September 25th release | |||
Interesting how McCain budgets more for energy and the environment than Obama.
Even more interesting is that Obama will reduce our overall National Defense and International Relations budget by over $72 Billion at a time when Russia is reasserting its aggression, North Korea is re-ramping up its nuke program and Iran has some 5,000 centrifuges creating enough fissile material for a bomb a year. (If Obama was merely maintaining the existing budget, the number in his column for this category would be zero, not a negative number)
And lastly, it would seem anyone could pay for near-universal healthcare by first taking our tax money for it, almost $140 Billion of it.
Then maybe we'll have what Canada has: doctors picking patients' names out of hats to decide which ones to treat.
Excellent table - thanks for posting. Given our ongoing yearly deficit, even in non-crisis years, McCain should be taken to task for proposing $92.437 billion more spending. Obama is proposing an economic train wreck. His supporters had better flee his campaign right now!
What a fantastic chart. It's almost always as simple as following the money (or in this case, proposed money) to see where people's heart truly is.