[annyokie]

Oh, I will. Thank you for your concern and see you in the clubhouse.

[Owen]

You know, government spending is an odd creature economically. We can all look at numbers as a % of GDP and growth rates and efforts to restrict growth rates, but the truth of the matter is the vast majority of government spending is salaries.

Yep, salaries.

For either government workers or some private sector entity who received a contract.

Salaries are subject to tax. That part which is not taxed and kept gets spent at McDonalds or something and pays for . . . you guessed it, meat, made by ranchers and meat processors. Those places pay more salaries. And those salaries are taxed, too.

Weird thing, government spending. A big chunk of it comes back to the treasury. I don't know what all this means, but it probably means something. If I had to guess, I'd guess it means this is much ado about nothing.