[AntiGuv]

And on this:

I don't know what that table is meant to portray...

It's self-evidently meant to portray the expansion of welfare and pork spending under Bush, versus the contraction of welfare and pork spending under Reagan.

[Mudbug]

It's self-evidently meant to portray the expansion of welfare and pork spending under Bush, versus the contraction of welfare and pork spending under Reagan.

Yes, of course. But is this congressional (as in controlling the purse strings) or administrative?