http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/11/spending_wars.html
The ideas that federal spending exploded under George W. Bush, that "Bush's wars" account for our spending explosion, that Reaganism died with Reagan, and that we are on a spending binge that started decades ago are all nonsense.
Our current spending binge is a very recent phenomenon with a very specific starting point: the year Democrats started writing budgets (or continuing resolutions), compounded by Barack Obama's inauguration.
(Article does continue - with charts. Zim.)
(KTC - you should read and study this one.)
(KTC - can you make an intelligent comment?)

Mad Poet Strikes Again.