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[Reports and details on U.S. spending proposals can be found at the United States Office of Management and Budget ] You setup your own household budget, carefully watch it to stay within your means and check it monthly to be sure your still on target. So, now that your on top of your own discretionary spending, ever get curiously about how your trusted national leaders are doling out your hard earned tax bucks. Here are some highlights: please visit the Office of Management and Budget for visually better tables that I wasn't able to import due to Blogger's software. Proposed Budget Totals (Dollar amounts in billions) for 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 Budget Totals:      Receipts 2,154 2,285 2,416 2,590 2,714 2,878 3,035      Outlays 2,472 2,709 2,770 2,814 2,922 3,061 3,240      Deficit −318 −423 −354 −223 −208 −183 −205 GDP 12,290 13,030 13,761 14,521 15,296 16,102 16,955 Budget Totals as a Percent of GDP:

1. Man has been obsessed since the beginning of time with attempts to understand (superstition, religion and science) himself and his environment. No absolute consensus has ever been reached, but there have been enough divergent explanations as to nullify the possibility that a consensus will be reached anytime soon. 2. Sunlight feels good! 3. Man can not stay still for long and has always been on the move, migrating to the next nearest valley, river or ocean. In general, the further man migrated, the better things (food, water, freedom) got for the immigrating group and the worse things (food, water, freedom) got for the local inhabitants 'til the locals assimilated. That's it... Those are the only three things I know. Sure, I've developed many opinions and suppositions along the way, but it would be an offense against humility and reason to say that I absolutely know anymore than that at this point in my life. I can also say, "I knew a lot more when I was twenty-f

[I grew up in geographic mono-ethnicism, but at age eighteen found life more rewarding in an ethnically rich community] Definition: racialism ra·cial·ism (rā'shə-lĭz'əm) n.    1.       a. An emphasis on race or racial considerations, as in determining policy or interpreting events.       b. Policy or practice based on racial considerations.    2. Chiefly British. Variant of racism. — Answers.com Ok... Now that we have the academics out of the way, let's look at this conveniently ignored and misunderstood word at the everyday/middle class/just-looking-after-me level. CBS's new series/comedy The New Adventures of Old Christine cleverly illustrated the results of "passive-discrimination" when Julia Louis-Dreyfus (yes, from Seinfeld fame) brings her stage son, Trevor Gagnon, into the classroom of an exclusive, private school for the first day introduction. Christine (Julia) tries to show Little Richard (Trevor) the amenities of the new school over her own quie