How to Make the Leviathan's Growth Understandable

http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/2012/01/how-make-leviathans-growth-understandable/2057346

It is hard to fathom the enormity of the federal government.

With an annual budget of almost $4 trillion, annual deficits of well over $1 trillion, outstanding debt of over $15 trillion, and unfunded future liabilities of well over $50 trillion, Washington has become by far the largest, most expensive organization in the history of human civilization.