Talk:2015 United States federal budget

Accuracy of figures

Looks like the figures shown in the table here are not matching with the OMB data. Can the original author recheck this?

Here is another link to the visualization of the amounts.

Vpfaiz (talk) 10:51, 9 March 2015 (UTC)

The figures are directly from the budget document itself: [1]. Also, the first of your links is for FY2016, not FY2015. Antony–22 (^talk⁄_contribs)

not necessary or ?

Hey guys,

the sentence in the article:

The budget takes the form of a budget resolution which must be agreed to by both the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate in order to become final, but never receives the signature or veto of the President of the United States and does not become law.

is not needed anymore or? I mean the fiscal year ended 11 days ago... the new fiscal year will be better than thought too, I mean the deficit and therefore the new debt of the USA. I hope the FED stops "cheating" with their buy bond programms, the US goverment is and was getting the money needed in the last years extreme cheap... I mean before the crisis ~4,5 - 5% was normal, even for the short-term notes (1, 3, 6 months and 1 year) there was a interest rate of over 3 or even 4%, now 1 month often stands at 0,00xxxx (meaning a bit but lower than 0,005...) and even 3 months is often at 0,00xxx... and 6 months is a joke.

Example: 8 October: 1 and 3 month stood at 0,00xxx% and 6 month at 0,07%, 1 year at 0,27%, 2 year at 0,65% (and this is high compared to some times in the past 3-4 years), since the FED interest rate for "overnight credits" for banks and other financial institutes still stands at the 0,00 - 0,25% historic low since end of 2008 or early 2009 to fight the financial crisis. This has to be lifted since average jobs creation was over 200,000 per month for the last 2 years. I think almost all jobs lost due to the crisis are now back again, I do not know in which quality (payment, working time etc) this jobs are... but the oil boom of course helped, it is now in decline the oil production but it helped a lot, increasing the GDP of the US strongly by very strong oil and natural gas output, and these new projects of course created jobs too.

I hope the US recover fast, since China, India and Russia (ok they have their own heavy problems due to European Union sanctions and low oil price, the US sanctions are more symbolic since there was almost no trade between them anyway, except a bit oil imports into the US from Russia), but they are not waiting... and China is slowly going to hunt the USA in terms of military equipment, their largest problem is the nuclear sector (nuclear propulsion for the navy, China and Russia each got 1 aircraft carrier, it is a Soviet one, 1 built in the Soviet Union and commissioned on 25th December 1990, only few months before SU collapse, the other one was not complete and the other planned were never started of course, however since the SU did work ~6 years on the 2nd one China bought him and made him ready, propulsion and many things were already existing, so both of them run with 8 steam turbines and 4 engines with 50,000 horsepower each... the USA got 10 or 11 (Nimitz-Class is going to be replaced), the costs for only 1 conventional carrier like the Admiral Kuznetsov-Class carriers are very high... 200,000 hp to move this gigantic ship, full loaded with kerosene, fuel, food. The US carriers run with nuclear reactors (2 typically for one carrier), on Admiral-Kuznetsov the electricity is created by additional diesel generators, the US carriers of course use even more electricity (since the crew does not need to safe energy) which is produced by the 2nd nuclear reactor... the new reactors are getting new "fuel rods" (?) with a life time of 30 years, I think the Nimitz-Class need new uranium rods every 15 years or so...

Whatever, the sentence is not needed anymore^^

Greetings Kilon22 (talk) 12:26, 11 October 2015 (UTC)