February 21st, 2013 at 1:33PM
barticles: A good measure of government spending: per capita, adjusted for inflation. Note the partisan vectors, esp. Bush/Obama. (source) In case you felt like blaming a single individual instead of government as a whole, here’s a reminder of why you’d be wrong.  Every single president has continued to seize more power and spend more money, those are the facts. 

barticles:

A good measure of government spending: per capita, adjusted for inflation.

Note the partisan vectors, esp. Bush/Obama.

(source)

In case you felt like blaming a single individual instead of government as a whole, here’s a reminder of why you’d be wrong. 

Every single president has continued to seize more power and spend more money, those are the facts. 

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January 16th, 2013 at 3:18PM

classical-liberal:

The National Debt Road Trip.

The National Debt visualized as a road trip from New York City to Los Angeles. 

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December 6th, 2012 at 4:26PM
This may be a moment in Senate history, when a senator made a proposal that, when given an opportunity for a vote on that proposal, filibustered his own proposal…I don’t think this has ever happened before. —

Sen. Dick Durbin, after Mitch McConnell’s latest scheme blew up in his face. McConnell introduced legislation today that would allow the president to unilaterally raise the debt limit, suspecting that Democrats wouldn’t have the guts to vote for it. When it became clear that Democrats did indeed have the votes to pass the bill with a simple majority, McConnell filibustered it, preventing its passage. The United States Senate, ladies and gentlemen. source (via shortformblog)

SugaShane: American politics in a nutshell. It’s like running in place while punching yourself in the face and kicking yourself in the ass. 

(via shortformblog)
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