The Chart To End All Charts

Posted on July 25, 2011 at 4:20 pm by JM Ashby

Via the New York Times

Despite what antigovernment conservatives say, non-defense discretionary spending on areas like foreign aid, education and food safety was not a driving factor in creating the deficits. In fact, such spending, accounting for only 15 percent of the budget, has been basically flat as a share of the economy for decades. Cutting it simply will not fill the deficit hole.

Need I say more?

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  • Scopedog

    “Need I say more?”

    Nope. No need. It truly shows that “a picture is worth a thousand words.”

    Sadly, I’m sure that the Repubs, Teabaggers and Firebaggers will slag this off and continue bitching about how Obama sucks (add whatever body part you prefer).

    • http://twitter.com/bphoon Brian C

      Of course they will. They have nothing else. They ran out of ideas years ago and are left with nothing but these failed ideological “policy” positions that are already shown not to work. All they can do is criticize Obama and the Democrats and oppose whatever they propose regardless of whether they (the GOP) originally supported it–or even proposed it themselves in the past.

      Facts? Shit…facts have no place in the Republican fairy tale.