For the year 2011, the United States government had expected to spend around 41% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Majority amount of this money was allocated to health care, education, pensions and programs related to welfare. The spending on health care is mainly split between the state governments and federal government, education spending is mainly allocated to local governments and pension spending is handled mainly by the Social Security program of the federal government. One of major reasons ...
With the present debt situation in the US, both the President and the lawmakers are trying their best to take solid steps that can exterminate the debt burden off the consumers. Both the US government and the consumers are all personally drowning in a sea of debt. According to the President, there is no such difference between your personal finances and that of the nation. Though the nation's personal finances are operated within a macro-economic background, the basics of dealing with it are the ...