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Just expanding on the above, here are the percentages above the pre-stimulus baseline (2008 budget) for spending in the 2010-2013 budgets:
2010: 3.46T v. 2.98T - increase of $480,000,000,000 - a 16% increase
2011: 3.6T v. 2.98T - increase of $620,000,000,000 - a 21% increase
2012: 3.63T v. 2.98T - increase of $650,000,000,000 - a 22% increase
2013: 3.58T v. 2.98T - increase of $600,000,000,000 - a 20% increase
Total increase is $2,350,000,000,000 against a baseline of $11,992,000,000,000 - an increase of 19.6%
To put that in historical context, the highest 4 year increase in the Marketwatch table, going back to the Reagan years, was 8.1%
In other words, controlling for the artificial inflation of the stimulus, Obama is inflating Federal spending at more than twice the rate of his most profligate predecessors
One more question - why are you posting an article from 6 months ago?
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