1 example in a long, long, long list of examples in an OUT-OF-CONTROL executive branch.
Socialism Is Legal Plunder - Bastiat
8. The ways in which a great debt, so constituted and applied, will contribute to the ultimate end in view are both numerous and obvious. (1) The favorite few, thus possessed of it, whether within or without the government, will feel the staunchest fealty to it, and will go through thick and thin to support it in all its oppressions and usurpations.
11. ...It may be called, for example, a power for the common safety or the public good…
…As the people, however, may not run so readily into the snare as might be wished, it will be prudent to bait it well with some specious popular interest…
http://www.constitution.org/cmt/freneau/republic2monarchy.htm
DISMANTLE the Dept. of “Education”
Executive Branch spending is certainly out of control, but this is not an example. The author points out that state level spending has increased, but the costs of tuition have continued to rise at a rate above the funding that higher learning receives from state governments.