Fact: Some of the things republicans are spending your money on:

$2,000,000 for the First Tee golf program in St. Augustine, Fla.;

$1,800,000 for the Women's World Cup tournament;

Fact: Federal spending has jumped to its highest level, per household, since World War II, according to the Heritage Foundation. "The unfortunate truth is that the Bush administration, aided by a Republican Congress, has increased spending more in three years than the previous administration did in eight," said Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas.

A $128 billion budget surplus when Bush moved into the White House is now a $375 billion deficit with few people optimistic that the federal budget will reach balance again.

Fact: Spending has mushroomed by 23.7%, the fastest pace in a decade….overall federal expenditures have grown to an estimated $2.31 trillion for the budget year that started Oct. 1. That is up from $1.86 trillion in President Clinton's final year, a rate of growth not seen for any three-year period since [Bush Senior] 1989 to 1991...

What has vexed conservatives most is the 31.5% growth since Bush took office in discretionary spending....Such spending grew by an annual average of 3.4% during Clinton's eight years...

Fact: You can watch how fast republicans spend here:

http://costofwar.com/

http://www.uwsa.com/uwsa-usdebt.html

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