Dash of Calabash

This Heritage Foundation report details the increase in federal spending from 1990 until 2005. The “federal spending by category” table has an astonishing fact. Federal spending on energy programs increased an unbelievable 29022 percent from 2001 to 2006 (projected.) It went from $9 million to $2.621 billion in just 5 years. The No Child Left Behind program was responsible for a 137 percent increase in spending for education for the same period. The long term trends in Entitlement Spending are just as astounding, and frightening.

The whole report is here (pdf.)

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