In "Federal Spending for Dummies" by Tom Quiner for The Des Moines Register, the author lays out the historical record for out of control government spending (is there any other kind?) and concludes that it has grown per citizen by about 80% since 1980.
Believing that this growth in spending is unsustainable, he suggests that a new era of restraint is in order and must begin now before it is too late.
In this he is most certainly correct.
Read his argument by following the link above.
