Federal Spending Has DOUBLED Since 2000

 

"Two monks were arguing about the temple flag waving in the wind. One said, 'The flag moves.' The other said, 'The wind moves.' They argued back and forth but could not agree.

The Sixth Ancestor said, 'Gentlemen! It is not the wind that moves; it is not the flag that moves; it is your mind that moves.' The two monks were struck with awe."

 

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Federal outlays (spending) amounted to less than $1.8 Trillion in fiscal year 2000. It's exactly DOUBLE that now (FY2012): $3.6 Trillion.

Did anyone complain that the federal government was too small back in 2000?

And are we any better off now, with DOUBLE THE SPENDING and TRIPLE THE DEBT?

This week's Sky-Is-Falling "Sequester" is a drop in the bucket. The federal government is spending $10.5 Billion each and every day, so the "Sequester" only amounts to eight days' worth. Any way you look at it, it's only 2 percent, the same proportion by which Obama just raised payroll taxes. 

I say let the tree fall in the woods.