Money circulates from the politicians to the unions and back again.
In the meantime, while the “infrastructure” is being worked on, traffic is snarled, goods arrive to market late, etc. because the unions did a crappy job in the first place (I live in Boston and have first-hand experience), took too long to do the job in the first place, and do a crappy job and take too long to repair it. This is all to keep the money flowing as long as possible by the way.
Where exactly is the growth here?
And the budget that the Dims never got around to making, its called DNA. A second sign of cancer is when the unrestrained growth stops following the laws and blueprints of the host and just does what it wants, which is grow and consume.
A third parallel is if it is benign or malignant. That is, has the cancer spread beyond the original infestation, like to the supreme court or the Justice Department and the EPA.
If you have an ever consuming growth to no purpose that is spreading throughout your government, you have a malignant cancer or Corruption via Marxism.