Federal Spending

I got this off the whitehouse.gov website. It helps put into perspective where all of our federal funds go. Apparently, killing Iraqis is slightly more important than running our own country.

(In billions of dollars)

Agency	2008 Request	2008%
Agriculture	20.2	2.2%
Commerce	6.6	0.7%
Defense	481.4	51.8%
Education	56	6.0%
Energy	24.3	2.6%
Health and Human Services	69.3	7.5%
Homeland Security	34.3	3.7%
Housing and Urban Development	35.2	3.8%
Interior	10.6	1.1%
Justice	20.2	2.2%
Labor	10.6	1.1%
State and Other International Programs	35	3.8%
Transportation	12.1	1.3%
Treasury	12.1	1.3%
Veterans Affairs	39.4	4.2%
Corps of Engineers	4.9	0.5%
Environmental Protection Agency	7.2	0.8%
Executive Office of the President	0.3	0.0%
Judicial Branch	6.1	0.7%
Legislative Branch	4.4	0.5%
National Aeronautics and Space Administration	17.3	1.9%
National Science Foundation	6.4	0.7%
Small Business Administration	0.5	0.1%
Social Security Administration	7.9	0.8%
Other Agencies	7.5	0.8%
Total, Discretionary Spending	929.8	100.0%

I appoligize if this doesn't display correctly. It looks fine on my computer. Here's a summary in case you can't read it. The department of defense spends 51.8 percent of the entire federal budget. The remaining 22+ agencies spend the rest. These percentages have remained the same for the last several years.