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Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt

Budget Reform & the Economy

Comments on Paul Ryan's proposal to shift Medicare to a voucher system

Russ Douthat: Budgeting for Opportunity

Rep. Paul Ryan on his budget proposals 

The Baseline Scenario-Simon Johnson's testimony to Congressional Oversight Panel (03/04/2011)

Economist's view of the 2011 State of the Union

National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform: Co-Chairs' Proposal

Charlie Rose Show-Interview of Erskine Bowles & Alan Simpson, Co-chairs of Nat'l Comm. of Fiscal Responsibiilty and Reform 

Peterson-Pew Commission on Budget Reform-Getting Back in the Black 

Bi-Partisan Policy Center's Debt Reduction Task Force

The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget 

Common Threads among Proposals 

Third Way Infographics on Federal Investment in Energy

The Political Math

Our Fiscal Security (Demos, The Century Foundation & Economic Policy Institute)

U.S. Treasury

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve 

Bloomberg Business News  

Financial Times 

World's Largest Manufacturers 

China's Global Trade

Bureau of Labor Statistics Economic & Employment Projections 2008-18

Who Runs Government (Names and Organizational Charts)

The Federal Budget Process-Interactive Graphic



The Federal Budget: Where the money comes from. Where the money goes.

(courtesy of the Washington Post)
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2011 Federal Discretionary Budget (w/ general info on total budget)




                 

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