Some very Scary Math

What happens if you plot federal spending versus median household income?

Well you get a very interesting and very frightening chart.

From 1967 to about 2000 the trend is linear. Then after 9/11 and Runaway Republicna spending the slope jumps up, showing spending outpacing income.

Then.... then the real nightmare begins, under Democratic congressional control the line goes beyond vertical. Income drops and spending shoots right up.

Powerline has other thoughts.

The obviously unsustainable explosion in federal spending that the Democratic Congress has embarked upon since 2007 is the central issue of our time. Among other things, it is the genesis of the Tea Party movement. That which can't continue, won't; the only question is whether sane hands will take over the tiller and restore some sort of balance, or the federal government will crash in a fiscal disaster.