On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 22:34:06 GMT, "Bruce A. Frank"
wrote:

The money we hand out to the rest of the world (a practice I detest),
even adding in the cost of maintaining bases all over the world is a
very small part of US government expenditures. Welfare and entitlement
programs eat most of the budget.

And prisons.

Here in Nevada, the prisons eat up as much money as the schools. It's
split about evenly between welfare 1/3, schools 1/3, prisons 1/3. The
government itself is this little sliver of the pie that is
inconsequential.

BWB