<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/2f7f9e18-9c81-4df6-b91a-f1efa8441f51/7F5AF031-9DB4-40B2-9E83-CFEFDA15CA8F/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.downsizinggovernment.org/" href="http://www.downsizinggovernment.org/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.downsizinggovernment.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.downsizinggovernment.org/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.downsizinggovernment.org/img/80E013CC-630C-4FB5-A2B4-F0B623EF2824" alt="Home" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.downsizinggovernment.org/"><P>The <STRONG>Department of Energy</STRONG> oversees nuclear weapons sites, runs electric utilities, and subsidizes conventional and alternative fuels.</p> <P>The department will spend <STRONG>$29 billion in 2009, or about $248 for every U.S. household</STRONG>. It employs 16,000 workers directly and oversees 100,000 contract workers.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.downsizinggovernment.org/"><P><SPAN>The <STRONG>Department of Commerce</STRONG> subsidizes businesses, restricts foreign trade, and oversees the Census Bureau and Patent Office.</SPAN> </p> <P> The department will spend <STRONG>$11.8 billion in 2009, or about $101 for every U.S. household</STRONG>. It employs 53,000 workers and oversees more than 3,900 pages of regulations.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.downsizinggovernment.org/"><P>The <STRONG>Department of Housing and Urban Development</STRONG> funds public housing, provides rental vouchers, and subsidizes homeownership.</p> <P> The department will spend <STRONG>$65 billion in 2009, or about $555 for every U.S. household</STRONG>. It employs 9,500 workers and oversees more than 3,600 pages of regulations.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.downsizinggovernment.org/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.downsizinggovernment.org/img/DEA3E10C-6AA6-47F2-9D09-9561B7BF947C" alt="Shares of Total Federal Spending, 2009" /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/7F5AF031-9DB4-40B2-9E83-CFEFDA15CA8F/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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