Budget, spending, debt: Charts to use when canvassing [Archive]

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fez2008

01-20-2008, 02:57 PM

For pro-war people (where can you balance?):

http://www.flickr.com/photos/17652916@N07/2206666825/

For anti-war people: (need to cut so many departments to balance budget)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/17652916@N07/2206664671/

Comparison of debt, gdp, budget allocation:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/17652916@N07/2206675861/

fez2008

01-20-2008, 03:17 PM

Can someone post these images inline? I tried usng the IMG tag but it is not working

wfd40

01-20-2008, 03:29 PM

pie charts man.. those bar graphs suck for lack of a better word

;)

fez2008

01-20-2008, 03:55 PM

pie charts man.. those bar graphs suck for lack of a better word

;)

Here are pie-charts (not mine):
Income: Mandatory and discretionary spending
http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/images/2008_budget.jpg
discretionary spending:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/47458816@N00/486274438/

I used bar graphs because it will be easy to compare the 2 towers than imagining the size of the pie chunks to compare them.