The US Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis shows how the GDP is generated. This tells us how people spent the $11 trillion circulating in the US Economy in 2005. Combining a few categories and looking at the big numbers we can see where the money goes:

• 17.7% to government¹
• 13.7% to housing
• 11.4% goes to medical care
• 9.6% to food
• 4.0% to cars and personal transportation
• 3.5% to furnishings
  
• 3.4% to clothing
• and 2.8% to recreation

Note 1. The government actually spends about 1/3rd of the GDP ($4 trillion of the $12 trillion total) but much of this is in the form of transfer payments. When they collect taxes and then redistribute the money to others to spend. So the 17.7% is what they actually spend on goods and services like guns and butter.

Line		2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
1	Gross domestic product	9,817.0	9,890.7	10,048.8	10,301.0	10,703.5	11,048.6
2	Personal consumption expenditures	6,739.4	6,910.4	7,099.3	7,295.3	7,577.1	7,841.2
3	Durable goods	863.3	900.7	964.8	1,020.6	1,085.7	1,145.3
4	Motor vehicles and parts	386.5	405.8	429.0	442.1	450.4	452.9
5	Furniture and household equipment	312.9	331.8	364.3	397.8	446.0	490.6
6	Other	163.9	163.2	172.4	183.2	195.6	212.6
7	Nondurable goods	1,947.2	1,986.7	2,037.1	2,103.0	2,179.2	2,276.8
8	Food	925.2	940.2	954.6	977.7	1,011.0	1,065.7
9	Clothing and shoes	297.7	303.7	318.3	334.2	350.9	372.7
10	Gasoline, fuel oil, and other           energy goods	191.5	193.4	197.4	198.5	200.5	199.5
11	Other	532.9	549.2	567.1	593.2	618.5	643.9
12	Services	3,928.8	4,023.2	4,100.4	4,178.8	4,323.9	4,436.6
13	Housing	1,006.5	1,033.7	1,042.1	1,051.9	1,091.6	1,122.6
14	Household operation	390.1	391.0	393.2	398.8	409.3	418.0
15	Electricity and gas	143.3	140.9	144.9	147.5	149.8	153.8
16	Other household operation	246.8	250.2	248.3	251.2	259.5	264.1
17	Transportation	291.3	288.0	280.2	280.6	284.0	284.4
18	Medical care	1,026.8	1,075.2	1,136.6	1,180.8	1,217.3	1,260.9
19	Recreation	268.3	274.9	281.2	290.8	304.8	313.1
20	Other	945.9	960.3	966.6	975.3	1,016.0	1,036.2
21	Gross private domestic investment	1,735.5	1,598.4	1,557.1	1,613.1	1,770.6	1,866.3
22	Fixed investment	1,679.0	1,629.4	1,544.6	1,596.9	1,713.9	1,842.0
23	Nonresidential	1,232.1	1,180.5	1,071.5	1,081.8	1,145.8	1,223.8
24	Structures	313.2	306.1	253.8	243.5	248.7	251.5
25	Equipment and software	918.9	874.2	820.2	843.1	904.2	984.9
26	Information processing                 equipment and software	467.6	459.0	437.4	462.7	509.3	552.6
27	Computers and                    peripheral equipment 1	---	---	---	---	---	---
28	Software 2	176.2	173.8	169.7	177.3	195.0	206.2
29	Other	190.0	181.7	161.1	167.1	180.7	193.6
30	Industrial equipment	159.2	145.7	134.5	138.4	132.7	143.5
31	Transportation equipment	160.8	142.8	126.0	113.8	128.8	145.4
32	Other equipment	131.2	126.9	122.9	130.4	137.6	147.3
33	Residential	446.9	448.5	469.9	509.4	559.9	608.0
34	Change in private inventories	56.5	-31.7	12.5	14.3	53.4	19.6
35	Farm	-1.3	0.0	-2.5	0.4	6.1	0.2
36	Nonfarm	57.8	-31.8	15.2	14.0	47.0	19.6
37	Net exports of goods and services	-379.5	-399.1	-471.3	-518.9	-590.9	-619.2
38	Exports	1,096.3	1,036.7	1,013.3	1,026.1	1,120.4	1,196.1
39	Goods	784.3	736.3	707.0	719.8	784.4	843.2
40	Services	311.9	300.4	306.0	306.2	335.9	352.9
41	Imports	1,475.8	1,435.8	1,484.6	1,545.0	1,711.3	1,815.3
42	Goods	1,243.5	1,204.1	1,248.2	1,309.3	1,452.2	1,549.9
43	Services	232.3	231.6	236.5	236.6	260.3	267.5
44	Government consumption expenditures     and gross investment	1,721.6	1,780.3	1,858.8	1,904.8	1,940.6	1,958.0
45	Federal	578.8	601.4	643.4	687.1	716.6	727.5
46	National defense	370.3	384.9	413.2	449.0	475.4	483.6
47	Consumption expenditures	321.5	334.1	356.7	387.5	408.3	413.3
48	Gross investment	48.8	50.8	56.7	61.7	67.5	71.2
49	Nondefense	208.5	216.5	230.2	238.0	241.0	243.7
50	Consumption expenditures	177.8	185.8	197.3	204.5	207.0	207.3
51	Gross investment	30.7	30.7	32.9	33.5	33.9	36.7
52	State and local	1,142.8	1,179.0	1,215.4	1,217.8	1,223.9	1,230.4
53	Consumption expenditures	917.8	941.2	969.4	969.8	979.6	988.0
54	Gross investment	225.0	237.8	246.1	248.1	244.1	242.1
55	Residual	0.1	1.2	-1.1	-6.4	-17.6	-42.6