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Government at all levels now eats up twice the share of the national economy it consumed 60 years ago. Are the government services you receive twice as valuable?
That challenge should become the key question in the ongoing battle over Obamacare. Given the obvious tendency of government to spend more and more with no discernable benefit to the public, why should anyone expect a better result from a huge expansion of the federal role in medical care?
The numbers already tell a horrifying story about the reckless expansion of government....
The Spending Sickness Makes for Unhealthy Reform
Reagan inherited a recession with high unemployment and high inflation as well as a surging Soviet empire. The last Carter budget was 21% of GDP. The last Reagan budget was 20% of GDP. Reagan ended his term with the Soviets collapsing, inflation under control, lower unemployment, the economy soaring and a smaller ratio of budget to GDP than he started with.
By comparison Bush, Medved's "near great" president, began...