The figures may be correct but the thinking is wrong. There appears to be no spending blame for Congress?
“The figures may be correct but the thinking is wrong. There appears to be no spending blame for Congress?”
“....And yet it’s not enough to satisfy the voracious appetites of the spenders in Congress and the administration.”
I think the article clearly put some blame on congress and some on the President. Both deserve blame but I’d say Bush deserves more. He was elected with a mandate from the people to shrink government and he did the opposite.
Under Klintoon and a GOP Congress, domestic discretionary spending went up 2.3 percent per year. Under Dubya and a Republican Congress, it went up 8.2 percent per year.