We the 99% Demand a Totally Different Federal Budget

October 28, 2011

By David Swanson

We can fit our demands on a bumpersticker: “Majority Rule” or “People Over Profits” or “Love Not Greed.”  But we don’t want to.  Our government is doing everything wrong, and we should be allowed to present the full list of grievances.  We can, however, give the world a thousand words’ worth in an image, a pie chart to be exact.  Our federal budget funds the wrong things.  We want it to fund the right things.

Here are pie charts produced by some of us members of the 99%: gallery.

Here’s where you can make your own: start.

You’ll have to register and log in, which prevents spam. Then you’ll have a chance to fill in the percentage of the federal budget that you’d like devoted to various areas. This budget tool — the programming for which was done by Karl Anliot — will let you know if your total adds up to 100%. You can do this in 60 seconds, but I recommend giving it some thought and really making this into your vision for future activism.

After you create your own ideal budget pie chart, you can compare it with the actual government budget and with the ideal budgets created by the rest of us. I suspect the biggest gap is going to be between the government and everybody else. You can also go back in and edit your budget. You can link to it. You can facebook it and tweet it.


More: http://peaceworker.dreamhosters.com/2011/10/we-the-99-demand-a-totally-different-federal-budget/