How much is the $100 million dollars in budget cuts compared to the federal budget as a whole? This video imagines the budget as $100 in pennies to provide the answer. For more on the budget, mathematics and political visualizations, follow me on Twitter: @politicalmath
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10000Pennies, I hope the federal government doesn’t see this video, because you can get in HUGE fucking trouble for destroying a penny, especially on purpose.
Why are people complaining about Obama or Bush? To believe that these guys make all the decisions is naive. They merely act as the face of the government.
If the world wishes to be free we must start to criticise government as a whole and criticise the system starting from the educational system to the mainstream media, which both contribute in keeping the general public dumbed-down.
medartist01 and those that are turning this problem into a matter of who is to blame aren’t doing one bit of good. If we wanted to play blame game, why dont you Youtube The Obama Deception and watch close to 2 full hours of obama saying one thing, then doing another. Hes lied to the public to the point that all the rational people that didnt fall for his change scheme because he is “black” are seeing that hes just another bush wrapped in a suit of intellectual speech and colored cardboard.
It’s funny how half the people think it’s Bush and the other half think its Obama.But the fact of the matter it is both the Republicans and Democrats that are killing this country.Get rid of the Federal government and give the power back to the states and this country might have a chance.
Lastly, I would love this Republican-teabagger to make a factual video about the National Debt in pennies, stacked pennies that is, on an X-axis, comparing Presidents Ford, Carter, Reagan’s two terms, Bush 1, Clinton’s 2 terms, and Bush’s 2 terms. The side-by-side comparisons would be STUNNING. And easily understandable. And factually accurate. It would be a zig-zag pattern showing the track of the debt. Not this BS showed here. Let’s be frank and honest when we debate. Not liars, OK?!
By the way, I love how the dude speaking in this video fails to point out that Bush gave Obama, a $1.3 trillion (with a T) deficit on day one, in office. Unprecidented. Usually annual deficits carried over are in the $350-450 billion range. But no, the former Rebumblican gave Obama, the equivalent of $1,300 billion deficit on January 20th. Oh, and a recession not seen since the Great-D. Millions out of work, and homes, and a crushing financial banking crisis. Oh, but it’s Obama’s fault, right??
This is the same fellow who posted the fraudulent road-trip-debt video. The fact that Bush doubled the Natl Debt in 8 yrs to $12 trillion (with a T) is not important I guess?? Nor is the fact that Bush failed to pay for his two, ongoing, unfinished wars? Plus the costs of rebuilding our military and the VA bill, is also missing? TARP anyone? Birthed by Bush also, not to mention the trainwrecking of the economy? All told, that’s $10 Trillion spent under Bush. In simplest terms, $10,000 billion!!
If we discussed national budgets in giga-dollars imagine how different budget decisions would be done. Imagine how different the reaction would be if Obama said he will cut “0.1 giga-dollars from the 3,500 giga-dollar budget”.
Congress should discuss budgets in terms of orders of magnitude, rather than absolute numbers. Or use a different term to represent a million dollars.
This is why astronomers measure large distances in light years, and not trillions of kilometers, because grasping large quantities gets in the way of the more interesting problems they want to figure out.
Very nice visualization. The onlything wrong with this video is that it is illegal to break a penny like that. Something to do with destruction of federal property? Oh well. Who cares, it’s still funny ;]
@coolspy3
Problem with the ” a penny saved…” is that the gov’t doesn’t “save” any pennies and the gov’t doesn’t “earn” any pennies or portion thereof.
They steal it from the populace at gunpoint and spend it before they have even stolen it.
Obviously you went to public school and do not have even a basic working knowledge of finances. But I’m happy they taught you how to put a condom on a cucumber…go feed yourself with that “talent”.
Yes, those are words, now lets try forming them into sentences. Instead of literally just saying whatever world comes to mind, why don’t you make well reasoned arguments to persuade your opponent.
On another note, why would I want to see your entire page when you clearly can’t express a coherent paragraph?
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cpblackangel88
COURT WILL SAY GIVE OBAMA DEATH PENALTY
None but courts of law, juries, justice alone can jail, try, judge Obama’s crimes: with a fake certificate becoming president and so wrongly getting nuclear force-access
It’s USA’s worst crime, Army high treason, top security breach; certainly carries death penalty, no doubt
Also on Obama’s election day broadcast on all TVs was Lotto’s # 666 (Antichrist’s Beast’s Mark)
Info: my page
SPREAD NEWS ON WEB