An amazing (and scary) way to see the U.S. Budget

There's an interactive graphic guide to the 2009 U.S. Budget that shows each component of the budget in scale. Take a look at it here. What it points out is that Defense, Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid swamp everything else. Defense is the biggest piece of the pie, but it's not much bigger than Social Security, and the population is getting older. What's also clear is that there's nowhere near enough income to support the spending we've already got, let alone the hundreds of billions of dollars being pumped into the economy to bail out the financial system that hadn't been factored into the original budget.