Everything you wanted to know about.................

government spending - and more.  Nate Silver is on the case.  Lots of handy charts to make all those statistics friendly-like.  For instance:

Love his conclusion:

We may have gone from conceiving of government as an entity that builds roads, dams and airports, provides shared services like schooling, policing and national parks, and wages wars, into the world’s largest insurance broker.

Most of us don’t much care for our insurance broker.

Thanks Tyler