DontBeStupid
Look it up!
No I am not counting the Recovery Act. Were talking only Regular Annual Discretionary Spending sir. He has committed us to spending 26% more every year than we were when Bush left office. Over and above the Recovery Act.
Your 26% number is the same number Krugman quotes, and it includes the Recovery Act. Backed up by PolitiFact:
According to OMB tables, non-defense discretionary spending was $522.4 billion in fiscal 2008 and climbed to $658.2 billion in fiscal 2010. That is a 26 percent increase, roughly in line with the increase cited by Ryan.
But that spike includes money from the stimulus, said Meg Reilly, an OMB spokeswoman. It counts all non-defense discretionary money spent by the government during the given year.
PolitiFact Virginia | Robert Hurt says some federal spending is up over 80 percent in two years