US Budget still very much unbalanced

SAI dwells deeper on Mary Meekers paper

First, "Revenue" is tiny relative to "Expenses."

Second, most of the expense is entitlement programs, not defense, education, or any of the other line items that most budget crusaders normally howl about.

Third, as horrifying as these charts are, they don't even show the trends of these two pies: The "expense" pie is growing like gangbusters, driven by the explosive growth of the entitlement programs that no one in government even has the balls to talk about. "Revenue" is barely growing at all.

Kleiner Perkins' partner Mary Meeker's excellent analysis of the financial condition of the United States.