This is one of the coolest and scariest things at the same time.  The folks over at Wallstats.com came up with this visually concise representation of the US 2009 Budget aka Death and Taxes 2009.  For them to fit all this information into such a confined space is absolutely amazing.

Then to top it off, it’s embedded into a cool flash application that lets you zoom in and look at all the gory details.

Some scary figures from Bush’s proposed budget…

  • Department of Defense… $515.4B (7% increase aka $36 BILLION)
  • Global War on Terror… $189.3B (
  • Department of Homeland Security… $37.6B budget (8% increase)
  • Department of Defense… $15.9B (6% increase)
  • Department of Justice Counterterrorism… $2.7B (9% increase)
  • Foreign Military Financing… $4.8B (8% increase)
  • Office of Violence Against Women… $0.280B (-27% increase)
  • Department of Education… $59.2B budget (0% increase)

We are so worried about people bombing, raping, pillaging and terrorizing our country while simaltaneously forgetting that it’s probably worse to have a safe and sound country full of uneducated idiots that beat women up.

Click the “Full Screen Mode” button in the top right corner to get the full effect.  Use the Zoom feature to dig into the info.