Re:USAspending – How U.S. government money was spent in 2016
by pnathan on Tuesday May 09, 2017 @12:30PM
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The risk of exposing this sort of information to general availability is that its easily weaponized as a propaganda tool for the political cause of the day, riling up the uninformed and unskilled (I am both essentially uninformed and unskilled in the art of macroeconomics).
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Re:USAspending – How U.S. government money was spent in 2016
by gavinpc on Tuesday May 09, 2017 @12:56PM
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That's not a risk, that's the raison d'etre. In the fifteen seconds most people will spend scrolling through this (of those who bother at all), only two things will be left in their mind: Social Security and California. I expect to hear a lot of "discussion" about Social Security in the next few cycles. They're coming after it again (cf 2005). It's already happening on this thread. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14301591