Hey, big spender!

Posted at 12:57 PM on September 27, 2007 by Bob Collins (1 Comments)

Neil Stevens at redstate.org breaks down the spending by presidents.

It's a bad deal if you're color-blind, but an interesting thesis nonetheless:

I tell you: never have I gotten a true appreciation for how easy it is to lie with statistics, than in making honest attempts to see where the Bush administration stands historically with respect to spending. There are just so many ways to chop and analyze the numbers, with every way telling a different story.

We all know the of story of the federal budget. While 'mandatory' entitlement spending is a runaway wreck, Presidents and Congresses have had differing success in controlling so-called discretionary spending. And the most 'fiscally conservative' President in that regard was President Clinton, thanks to 'divided government' forcing restraint. And of course the worst two were Presidents Lyndon Johnson and George W. Bush, who ran amok creating and growing programs thanks to one-party rule creating no opposition to waste.

I'm sorry to tell you this, but that story's not quite right.

Comments (1)

Interesting, some of the comments after the post are interesting to read.

Posted by Brian Hanf | September 27, 2007 4:00 PM

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