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"A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money".
-Senator Everett Dirksen, US politician (1896 - 1969).
-Senator Everett Dirksen, US politician (1896 - 1969).
In the past 10 years or so, with all the "billions" spent announced in the news headlines, if you blinked, you probably missed out on how a few billion were wasted. But no worries, now we can get a high level summary all onto a single 1 page graphic: (info as of Aug/Sep 09). I've also added a few more quick visualization images that sometimes make itulip headlines.
Source: http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/ (lots of other cool visual analysis there)
and here's the UK version:
A few other good ones...
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