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From the LA-Times (hat-tip Kevin Drum ) No shit, Captain Obvious...

The CBPP has some metrics out on the growth of "Government Spending", and the numbers are fascinating.  Ok, not really "fascinating", its pretty obvious stuff, that unfortunately gets drowned out by wingnut shrillery about "deficits", "big government", "starve the beast", blah, blah, blah. See the chart above?  It basically points out that If you exclude Social Security and Medicare , Government spending has been pretty steadily falling (!)  since 1962.  At worst, worst , it plateaued out or grew slightly during the crazy Bush years (unfunded tax cuts have a way of doing that). The CBPP puts it best   The bottom line is that if one measures the size and reach of the government by non-interest spending as a share of GDP, one finds that the government has indeed expanded, but modestly rather than explosively — and that all of the expansion is the result of the impact on Social Security and Medicare of rising health costs and the ...