The Center for American Progress has put together a great infographic putting into context the policy choices at hand in an economic environment where we have a government hell bent on putting taxpayer dollars into the pockets of wealthy people and corporations — at the expense of the people who have been hurt the most by current economic conditions:
The author here makes the case that the budget process needs to be more open and accountable so that Americans can see this kind of thing first hand. I suspect that this data wasn’t all that difficult to find, but with very few exceptions, you won’t find much from the media digging in to nitty gritty of budgets to show the choices being made. But it *should* make people very mad that these kinds of tax breaks for wealthy corporations and people are a much unneeded bailout of folks who aren’t using this money to invest in very many new jobs yet.