Politics

[cottonpicken]

Simple question what is a ballpark number on how much money the three levels of government spend per person.

[cottonpicken]

Is actually love to see a good clean debate from both the left and right on this issue.

Who's got the ****in balls to get in the ring.

[dalek]

All of it.

Last numbers I could find gave a rough total of just under a trillion dollars in 2010-2011 which would give about 29,000 for each man woman and child

[cottonpicken]

Jesus Dalek,I've always just eyeballed and ruffed mathed us at somewhere over 20. Didnt know it was as bad as that,thank you.

What is your opinion on the current state of affairs?

[TOM4CWB]

CP,

There are 4 levels of Gov now IMF is also big influence.

Numbers are 100's of Trillions... Dale K is right... all spent by us humans.. for use one way or another!!!

Grin! QE is just the latest novel addition to the arsenal!

[dalek]

I think the annual spending is important but distracts too much from the debt per person. I think we need to cut ALL government spending in half to get anywhere near responsible levels. Good luck with that though.

[TOM4CWB]

DaleK,

Especially when no one can even figure out the debt in China, the US... Russia... the EU... QE is just a wild Japan... is proof.

[cottonpicken]

Tom that number is still a yardstick showing where we are sitting and what is happening to us. I would say logic and trajectory is pretty important here.

[TOM4CWB]

CP,

That is funny!

There is no 'Logic' being used here... which is why an intelligent conversation about it is impossible! Politics especially!!!

[cottonpicken]

Fair enough lol.

Tell the truth did that number shock you?