This is from 2003, but it's probably worse instead of better now.
US spending surges to historic levelVote on gargantuan bill in Congress caps a year of stunning growth in government.
By Gail Russell Chaddock | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
December 08, 2003"WASHINGTON – President Bush and the Republican-led Congress are spending money at a rate not seen since World War II - and America's expanding war on terrorism isn't the main reason."
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Federal spending per household is above $20,000 this year - a level not seen since World War II..."
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"While lauding the Bush administration's annual tax cuts, conservatives worry that what will determine taxes in the long run is what Washington spends."
You think?...
Okay, if the government spent twenty-thousand dollars** or so on behalf of my household in pursuit of the
"Occupation" (remember, it's an "Occupation", not a "War"), that pretty much means it had to borrow that money--and therefore it's now part of our
huge,
soaring Deficits and
un·imaginably-vast Debt.
In any case, if they're going to borrow such money on my account--and make us all and our future generations pay for it (and they will, taxes
will have to rise dramatically), I'd rather they gave it to each of us instead of wasting it feeding a bloated military-industrial complex (Militar/Corporate Beast) (enabling them to invade and occupy helpless, albeit annoying, countries). Or, why not at least spend it on an effective fight against terror and it's causes. What would you have them do with the money (assuming we can't stop them from borrowing it in the first place)?
**$20,399