According to this website ===> http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/spending_history
Government spending in the United States has steadily increased from seven percent of GDP in 1902 to 40 percent this year. The math follows from there.
Specifically for 2011, the projected spending is $10.46 Billion per day. This is based on the projection of Federal Spending of $3.818 Trillion for the year.
Ref: http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/Historicals
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3 billion dollars a day. 3 billion was true back in the year 1963.
Specifically for 2011, the projected spending is $10.46 Billion per day. This is based on the projection of Federal Spending of $3.818 Trillion for the year.
Ref: http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/Historicals
2010 Federal Budget had the gov't spending $3.552 trillion dollars. There are 8765 hours in a year:
$3.552 trillion / 8,765 hours = $405,210,571 per hour
23 trillion dollars
$277,000
The U.S. government spent 292 billion dollars in 2010
6.5 billion annually.
37 billion dollars on prisons alone.