Usgovernmentspendingcom Goes To A Tea Party - Road to the Middle Class

AS I WAS handing out business cards for usgovernmentspending.com at the Seattle Tea Party on April 15 I thought to myself: “Houston, we’ve got a problem.”

The good folks going to the Tea Parties are not case-hardened policy-analyst types. They are mothers and fathers, business people and workers. They don’t have time to “do the numbers.” They know that government is too big, and they know that it ain’t right.

So I knew it was time for usgovernmentspending.com to change its home page. It should not feature a wall of numbers. It should have charts that present an overall feel of current government spending.

Right now the new home page is in development, and it won’t be ready for prime time for a day or two.

But we can show you samples of the new charts that will appear on the new home page.

First, there will be a bar chart of overall spending, like this:

Then there will be a couple of pie charts, one showing overall government spending as a share of the economy, like this:

The other will show the breakdown of spending into federal, state, and local government spending, like this:

Then there will be a table showing the numbers: overall spending, federal deficit, and total public debt over a five year period.

The new Rasmussen Poll shows that the average American has a favorable opinion of the Tea Party movement, while the political elite does not. We know what side we’re on at roadtothemiddleclass.com and at usgovernmentspending.com.

Hey, we just want to help.

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Christopher Chantrill blogs at www.roadtothemiddleclass.com. His Road to the Middle Class is forthcoming.

Comments:

Posted by: Jonathan Gardner on 04/20/09 8:16pm

What a valuable resource! That chart comparing private to government spending is very, very unsettling. Government spending should be something like 1% or 2% of our economy, except in wartime when it should rise to something like 10% to 20%. I'll include a link to your site from my blog at fwcon.wordpress.com

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