Spending? You want spending? Certainly, President Obama has made the US #1 in one respect – jacking up the level of expenditures by the Federal Govt. And thus, giving us the world’s largest yearly deficits as well as piling on the national debt.
These #1’s are things I’d rather not be receiving the crowns for. From The Corner on cutting the budget:
Clearly, we have two competing philosophies as to what constitutes “draconian.”
It’s worth looking at these figures in context. President Obama, upon taking office in January 2009, embarked on a federal spending spree of Brobdingnagian proportions. Between 2008-2010, non-defense discretionary spending increased by 84 percent (this includes the so-called “stimulus” package). The administration sold its profligacy under the pretense of “job creation.”…
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION:
| 2008 level: | $57.4 billion |
| 2010 level: | $63.7 billion |
| “Stimulus”: | +$97.4 billion |
| Increase (2008-10): |
$6.3 billion (+11%) |
| Total two-year increase (including stimulus): |
$103.7 billion (+181%) |
*Compared to a total increase between 2000-2008 of 60 percent.
(H/T: The Corner)
More after the jump
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY:
| 2008 level: | $24.1 billion |
| 2010 level: | $26.6 billion |
| “Stimulus”: | +$38.7 billion |
| Increase (2008-10): |
$2.5 billion (+10%) |
| Total two-year increase (including stimulus): |
$41.2 billion (+171%) |
*Compared to a total increase between 2000-2008 of 25 percent.
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA):
| 2008 level: | $7.6 billion |
| 2010 level: | $10.3 billion |
| “Stimulus”: | +$7.2 billion |
| Increase (2008-10): |
$2.7 billion (+36%) |
| Total two-year increase (including stimulus): |
$9.9 billion (+130%) |
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Hmmm. What might the EPA be planning to do with all that extra money?
HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES (HHS):
| 2008 level: | $ 72.9 billion |
| 2010 level: | $83.6 billion |
| “Stimulus”: | +$22.3 billion |
| Increase (2008-10) | $10.7 billion (+14.6%) |
| Total two-year increase (including stimulus): |
$33 billion (+45%) |
And that’s not even counting the $115 billion cost of implementing Obamacare that was conspicuously absent from the CBO score.
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION:
| 2008 level: | $10.7 billion |
| 2010 level: | $21.3 billion |
| “Stimulus”: | +$48.1 billion |
| Increase (2008-10) |
$10.6 billion (+99%) |
| Total two-year increase (including stimulus): |
$58.7 billion (+549%) |
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Compared to a total between 2000-2008 of 35 percent.
