Political Statistics I'd like to see

[liveonearth]

I want to see a comparison of governmental expenditures or losses due to all forms of personal welfare, including student loans, family planning, housing assistance, medicare and medicaid (etc), relative to all spent/lost due to corporate subsidies, bailouts and tax breaks. The two warring sides in our politics tend to focus on one and are hard pressed to even admit the existence of the other. But both exist. Let's see the numbers from both of those sides, rechecked and compiled into a graph by someone who isn't on one of those sides. And let's tear them apart (lies!!!) and start over with new numbers, different sources. Let's see it at the federal and state level. And then let's talk about why it might be in our collective best interests to prevent both unwanted pregnancies and auto industry crashes. And go from there.

Comments

[liveonearth.livejournal.com]

Thank you for offering your view! Clearly this is something you've contemplated more than once. And it is precisely because our national expenditures in support of big business are hard to track that this exercise needs to be done by many people with competing views.

[ford-prefect42.livejournal.com]

And I would genuinely welcome some math from those that make that case.