For a man who claims he wants to cut government waste, Barack Obama sure does know how to grow our government! Here's a little fact to keep in your arsenal:

He has increased federal spending to as much as 25% of the economy from a modern average between 20% and 21%. In terms of allocating resources, this means that 4% of annual economic output was suddenly taken out of private hands and put under government control.

Now Rand Paul has a plan that I am looking at. His plan wouldn't just freeze spending, but cut $500 billion from government spending in one year alone. He is the only one, to my knowledge, who has the gonads to even suggest touching the Education Department. His plan would gut the Education Department, fold the Energy Department into the Department of Defense and completely get rid of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Other victims on Paul's chopping block are seven independent agencies including the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and national endowments for the arts.