Wow: Federal Spending Up 84% Under Obama

by Stephan Tawney on November 10, 2010

Representative Paul Ryan (R-Wis), the incoming chair of the House Budget Committee, has released an analysis showing that federal spending has increased by a whopping 84% under the Obama Administration.

Republican Rep. Paul Ryan (Wis.), who is set to take over the House Budget Committee next year, said federal spending has increased a whopping 84 percent under President Obama.

The budget for the Environmental Protection Agency has increased by 124 percent under Obama, according to Ryan, who counted stimulus spending in his analysis.

Ryan and other Republicans are calling for a $100 billion cut in non-defense discretionary spending to bring it back to 2008 levels.

“There have been so many massive spending increases, 24 percent in the base budget, 84 percent when you add the stimulus,” Ryan said in an interview on Fox News Sunday.

“We have had spending on a gusher. And if borrowing and spending and taxing and spending actually created jobs and produced prosperity, we wouldn’t have all this joblessness,” he said.

Not surprising considering the deficit has tripled since Democrats took control of both Congress and the White House.



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