HUMP DAY FACTS AND FIGURES

Spending. The ugly truth is that Democrats and Republicans have become proficient at growing the size of government and using your tax dollars (and a lot they don't even yet have) to spend money on useless program, regulations and re-election projects. The fact is that our government spends more money on maintaining its own existence and the existence of the moocher class than anything else. Here are just a few facts I've happened upon that should remind you why it is so important to go to the polls in less than one month. Here's the harsh reality: You can't save yourself for our imperial federal government, but you may be able to save your grandchildren.

• Forty-one cents of every dollar the federal government spends we have to borrow from our kids and grandkids
   
• Between 2011 and 2018, Obama would spend $4.9 trillion more than Bush had planned to. That does not include spending in the name of "economic stimulus"
   
• If Obama had simply kept Bush's spending policies in place, federal deficits over the next eight years would be 60 percent lower. In 2018, we'd have a deficit of just $188 billion, instead of the projected $996 billion under Obama's budget.