Today's Stat

From 2000 to 2005 federal spending went up dramatically. Andrew Sullivan, on pg 145 of his book The Conservative Soul quotes the following numbers from The Heritage Foundation.

• Housing and commerce spending jumped 58%
  
• Community and regional development rocketed up 324%
  
• Medicaid increased 49%
  
• International affairs spending increased 111%
  

According to the U.S. Gov't Accountability Office, the future U.S. debt, the amount of money promised to programs that would not be collected in taxes, increased from $20.4 trillion in 2000 to $43.3 trillion in 2005.


Fiscal conservatism is dead in the U.S. federal government.