Bob Gorrell, 2/26/13:
Actually, over the past four years, federal spending is as close to flat as it's ever been. Sure, there were two big wars, an unfunded Medicaid expansion, and the bailout of the entire financial sector before that -- but, even there, the big problem was the massive drop in revenue (from a certain president's tax cuts in 2001 and 2002) that drove up those deficits.
But let's not let the facts get in the way of a cartoon or anything....
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