{"id":5807,"date":"2011-08-10T15:32:10","date_gmt":"2011-08-10T19:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/watchwomanonthewall\/?p=5807"},"modified":"2011-08-10T15:32:10","modified_gmt":"2011-08-10T19:32:10","slug":"hum%e2%98%bar-that-isnt-a-j%e2%98%bake-only-cause-it-aint-so-funny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/watchwomanonthewall\/2011\/08\/hum%e2%98%bar-that-isnt-a-j%e2%98%bake-only-cause-it-aint-so-funny.html","title":{"rendered":"HUM\u263aR that isn&#8217;t a j\u263ake only &#8217;cause it ain&#8217;t so funny!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>\u00a0<strong>The U.S. Congress sets a federal budget every year in the trillions of dollars. Few people know how much money that is so we created a breakdown of federal spending in simple terms. Let&#8217;s put the 2011 federal budget into perspective:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>U.S. income: $2,170,000,000,000<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Federal budget: $3,820,000,000,000<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>New debt: $ 1,650,000,000,000<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>National debt: $14,271,000,000,000<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Recent budget cut: $ 38,500,000,000 (about 1 percent of the budget)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>It helps to think about these numbers in terms that we can relate to.\u00a0\u00a0 Therefore, let&#8217;s\u00a0remove eight zeros from these numbers\u00a0and pretend this is the household budget for the fictitious Jones family:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Total annual income for the Jones family: $21,700\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Amount of money the Jones family spent: $38,200\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Amount of new debt added to the credit card: $16,500\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Outstanding balance on the credit card: $142,710<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Amount cut from the budget: $385<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0The U.S. Congress sets a federal budget every year in the trillions of dollars. Few people know how much money that is so we created a breakdown of federal spending in simple terms. Let&#8217;s put the 2011 federal budget into perspective: U.S. income: $2,170,000,000,000 Federal budget: $3,820,000,000,000 New debt: $ 1,650,000,000,000 National debt: $14,271,000,000,000 Recent&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":403,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[599,704,223,181,1498,1516],"tags":[2162],"class_list":["post-5807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-government","category-economics","category-economy","category-humor","category-insanity","category-u-s-debt","tag-drop-8-zeros"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>HUM\u263aR that isn&#039;t a j\u263ake only &#039;cause it ain&#039;t so funny! - Watchwoman on the Wall<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/watchwomanonthewall\/2011\/08\/hum\u263ar-that-isnt-a-j\u263ake-only-cause-it-aint-so-funny.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"HUM\u263aR that isn&#039;t a j\u263ake only &#039;cause it ain&#039;t so funny! - Watchwoman on the Wall\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u00a0The U.S. Congress sets a federal budget every year in the trillions of dollars. 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