To have a better understanding of the scale of US Federal budget, lets put it in relative terms & see how many average homes $100 million buys.
Average US home price is $190,000 as of July, 2012. The $100 million dollar pallet by the house will buy more than 500 homes in America.

500 homes is the size of a small town. If you look carefully, next to the garage you can see $100 million pallet that would make this possible.

US Government Administrative costs are classified as "General Government" spending. The list of sub-categories of administrative costs is very long. This is the cost of bureaucracy. See the entire list @ USGovernmentSpending.com.
Interesting fact: According to USGovernmentSpending.com's data, US IRS spends $500 million on tax collection in Puerto Rico yearly. For a country of 3.7 million people that's $135 per citizen. Every citizen is not a tax-payer. In US only 36% of citizens are income tax payers. If IRS spent $135 per citizen to collect tax in US, it would cost IRS $42.4 billion to collect Income tax. But this is for someone else to investigate..

We gave the bureaucrats 2x giant conference desks and plenty of filing cabinets so they can 'file away' some of that 'paper work' that's laying around.

US Government Protection costs are legal expenses,
including money to enforce laws, run courts and prisons.

$1 Million would buy 33 Dodge Charger Hemi V8 police cars.
The 'tiny $1 Million' is right next to the $100 Million pallet (bottom left).

US Government Transportation costs fund government grants, federal aid for highways, disaster assistance, aviation security, retired pay.
A significant chunk of the money goes to 'operating expenses'.

About half of US Government Education money goes to fund Elementary and secondary education.
$20.1 Billion go to "Accelerating Achievement and Ensuring Equity" - as stated.
$30.5 Billion go to the "American Jobs Act".
$5.4 Billion go to the "State Fiscal Stabilization Act"

There many other large budget item, see the full list here.

This is a whole bunch of random US Federal Government expenditures that don't fit in any other category.

See the full list here.

US Government in 2012 will spend about $450.3 Billion on interest on treasury debt securities (Government IOU's). It also receives $225.6 Billion in interest for its investments, leaving the Government with a balance of $224.8 billion to pay out.

It seemed appropriate to put the money on
trucks, since its getting shipped out of
tax-payers pockets to whoever
bought the public's debt.

US Government spends a significant portion of its budget on welfare. Obama has been dubbed the "food stamp president" since a record number of people are now on Food Stamps. Welfare programs and food stamps are necessary for the government in order to suppress social unrest during hard economic times.

The "Social Exclusions" are other welfare programs, including tax credits,
assistance to families, refugees, energy assistance, supplemental security, etc.
Full list is found here.

US Government will spend $819.7 Billion on pensions. It is a huge part of the US Federal Budget and growing at an astonishing pace. Baby boomers, who are born in the 1950's & 1960's are set to retire soon and the government has no clear budget solution in sight to fix the hole in Social Security.

A lot of old people are already fearing that the Government will not be able to provide for them, even though they paid in to the fund through out their lives, the Government has been siphoning on the Social Security Fund to fill the deficit in the budget.

US Government is subsidizing the Health Care industry heavily. A large chunk of the money goes to prescription pills.
The "Welfare" section consists of $255.3 Billion for grants to states for MediciAid, and "smaller" amounts for employee health benefits, children health insurance, CDC, substance abuse services, Department of Defense retiree health care, and many others.

Consisting of the largest chunk of the US Federal Government budget, for most Republicans and Democrats in office, the Defense budget is off the table.
The F35's in the background; are just under $200 Million dollars a piece - over 1000x private homes @ US average home price of $190,000.
$10 Billion will buy you 50x F35's and you would become the most advanced Air Force in the world, next to United States.
During the 2000's, the word Defense and Attack became interchangeable, just like War/Peace & Black/White-- If you are confused, read the book 1984.

The public servants in Washington are responsible to manage huge sums of the American people's hard earned tax dollars, and also the money they get by borrowing, including from the Federal Reserve, who bought a MASSIVE 61% of US debt that was issued in 2011.
If the US Budget's responsibility would be divided equally between by each member of Congress and the President, each public servant would be responsible for $7.08 Billion. This gives them same responsibility as someone who's managing a wealthy Billionaire's money.

A more cohesive and objective way to look at United States of America's Federal Government Budget.
Everyone must see this, send this to your friends and your Congress men and women.
Source: US Federal Budget