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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DizzyG who wrote (538121)	2/10/2004 12:54:02 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

I believe the inclusion of the Social Security surplus into the 'Unified Budget' was a change Congress made sometime during the Clinton administration. A Google search for 'Unified Budget', or a search of Heritage or Cato's Web sites might turn it up. This link may also help: Federal Spending – By the Numbers by Brian M. Riedl Overall Spending * Federal spending has grown twice as fast under President Bush than under President Clinton. * Federal spending reached $2.157 trillion in 2003, with a budget deficit of $374 billion. * In 2003, inflation-adjusted federal spending topped $20,000 per household for the first time since World War II. * Overall for 2003, the federal government spent $20,300 per household, taxed $16,780 per household, and ran a budget deficit of $3,520 per household. <Checkout the charts and figures, Cy>: heritage.org