The Mountain View Voices for Peace spent Tax Day '05 informing people at the Mountain View Post Office about where their taxes were going as they dropped off their forms. There was a steady stream of tax filers going into the building, and many of the ones we gave something to on the way in stopped to talk on the way out.

Part of the display was this chart, showing the breakdown of what the US Government does with $50 of our money. I pointed out over and over again that the only thing that uses more than a quarter of the total is military spending.

This guy thought it was quite ironic that Bush was on TV talking about Job Training as the sollution to our unemployment problem when that absorbs a grand total of 0.4% (less than half of one percent) of the Federal Governement's spending.