Where does our money go?

where do you see our tax money being spent? where do u think the government should be spending the most money at? why ?

where WE WOULD put the money...


how THEY do it...
The following chart shows the breakdown of the proposed federal discretionary budget for fiscal year 2008. (The discretionary budget refers to the part of the federal budget proposed by the President, and debated and decided by Congress each year. This part of the budget constitutes more than one-third of total federal spending. The remainder of the federal budget is called 'mandatory spending).

Increases in Govt Spending More Focused on Corrections than Education

Excerpt from Justice Policy Institute article “Effective Investments in Public Safety: Education”


Increases in government spending are more focused on corrections than on education


In fiscal year 2004, federal, state and local government spending for police protection, corrections and judicial and legal activities—totaling $193 billion—increased 4 percent from the previous year.

The President recently proposed decreasing funding for the Department of Education while increasing spending for the federal prison system

For fiscal year 2007, President Bush requested $54.4 billion in discretionary spending for the Department of Education, a 4.8 percent decrease from 2005. Meanwhile, the Office of Management and Budget estimates that the Department of Justice will spend $4.96 billion on the federal prison system in Fiscal Year 2007, a 4.2 percent increase from 2005.

What do you think should happen to the three cops that got indicted?

(conversation between BBC members):

hey just wanted to ask wat do ya think should happened to the cops dat got indicted for the sean bell case or wat did happen?please write bac soon luv ya all 1`


word they're trying to move the trial to albany just like they did with diallo...


why take it all the way to albany for when it happened here . the only reason they want to do that is so nuttin happens to the cops.


their argument is that people in NYC know too much about the bell case...but who doesn't? this was a national case! everyone's heard of it...

it doesn't matter where it is being heared at because we still going to fight back for justice of stolen.

The Sean Bell Case: Change of Venue?

April 12, 2007, 9:05 am
Sean Bell Case: Change of Venue?
By The Empire Zone

There continues to be talk of moving the trial in the Sean Bell case. Lawyers for the officers who have been charged were back in court yesterday.

Ellen Barry of The NY Times writes:

The hearing itself yesterday broke little new ground. Lawyers for the three officers pressed for the release of preliminary discovery they are entitled to by statute, including the grand jury minutes, coroner’s report and toxicology reports. At the next court date, May 14, they will establish a time frame for defense motions, which could include a motion to dismiss the indictments or separate the officers’ cases from one another. Defense lawyers could also request a change of venue or waive the right to a jury trial, which would place the case before Justice Arthur Cooperman of State Supreme Court in Queens.