Thursday, February 26, 2009

Federal budget and expenditures per capita

A couple of interesting graphs I found:


On both an absolute and per capita basis federal spending grew significantly under George W. Bush. Obama promised change -- and yet is only accelerating this trend.

We've already tried this path, how about something new?

Update: Related thoughts here. (via instapundit)

Update: One more graph from the Cato Institute:



And please read this.

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