http://mises.org/Community/blogs/martinf/archive/tags/Government+growth+federal+spending+Leviathan/default.aspxTags: Government growth federal spending LeviathanenCommunityServer 2008.5 SP2 (Build: 40407.4157)http://mises.org/Community/blogs/martinf/archive/2009/06/28/interesting-graphs-on-leviathan.aspxSun, 28 Jun 2009 14:28:00 GMT944abf2b-d1be-4bf2-990d-438cb0e377e9:226737martinf0http://mises.org/Community/blogs/martinf/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=226737http://mises.org/Community/blogs/martinf/archive/2009/06/28/interesting-graphs-on-leviathan.aspx#comments<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA;" lang="EN-GB"><a target="_self" href="http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/usgs_line.php?title=Total%20Spending&amp;year=1930_2000&amp;sname=US&amp;units=b&amp;bar=0&amp;stack=1&amp;size=m&amp;col=c&amp;spending0=11.92_12.18_12.44_12.62_12.81_14.78_16.76_17.22_17.68_19.05_20.42_24.35_45.58_92.71_109.95_118.18_79.71_57.74_55.08_62.71_70.33_75.94_99.90_110.05_111.33_110.72_115.80_125.46_134.73_145.75_151.29_164.83_169.50_177.35_189.11_193.89_216.22_248.07_277.19_296.09_321.84_354.79_388.25_411.64_453.23_550.53_620.29_668.15_734.47_809.24_940.24_1051.82_1179.43_1283.58_1353.86_1496.35_1592.78_1662.08_1771.39_1915.21_2088.99_2230.40_2349.40_2420.95_2507.06_2634.87_2719.43_2813.59_2923.39_3053.51_3240.18&amp;legend=">Here</a>&nbsp;it is what Leviathan has been doing since 1930: grow, grow, grow. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA;" lang="EN-GB">It seems spending during the WWII was quite small compared to what happened next.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA;" lang="EN-GB">It also seems Nixon did the best he could have done to the benefit of government growth by breaking down the Bretton Woods system&nbsp;and making the US dollar an irredeemable paper currency. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA;" lang="EN-GB">&quot;Every irredeemable paper currency in history has failed. Yet, the experiment of the US dollar and the rest of the fiat paper world continues.&quot;<br /></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA;" lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://mises.org/story/3281">http://mises.org/story/3281</a></span></p><div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://mises.org/Community/aggbug.aspx?PostID=226737" width="1" height="1">Government growth federal spending Leviathan