2009 pages and not one has been read.
That’s what I think, too.
I assume that a lot of them are line item expenditures, and that a lot of this same document gets submitted each year, and that they punch a formula into a spread sheet and it spits out new, higher numbers. My memory says that the government automatically asks for a 6% increase every year.
They tell us that inflation was so close to zero that seniors and retirees don’t need an increase, but they build an automatic increase for their spending each year because THEIR inflation is always at 6%.
In short, government always grows.