[ksen]

By all means, look this up. But after taking inflation and population into account, the real GDP for the following decades are:

1940s: 5.6%
1950s: 4.1%
1960s: 4.4%
1970s: 3.2%

http://www.intellectualtakeout.org/library/chart-graph/us-government-spending-percent-gdp

Hmmm, what started going up sharply in the 1940s?

[youngidiot]

Government spending is at an all time high. Under Obama we should be an economic juggernaut. But we aren’t, of course. Government spending is a fool’s game.