The last three rows are Quarters not years.

National Defense Consumptio­­­­­­­­­­­­­­n Expenditur­­­­­­­­­­­­­­e­s and Gross Investment­­­­­­­­­­­­­­, 1992-2010

(Billions of dollars)

1992 ( 376.8)
1993 ( 363.0) Clinton
1994 ( 353.8)

1995 ( 348.8)
1996 ( 354.8)
1997 ( 349.8)
1998 ( 346.1)
1999 ( 361.1)

2000 ( 371.0)
2001 ( 393.0) Bush
2002 ( 437.7)
2003 ( 497.9)
2004 ( 550.8)

2005 ( 589.0)
2006 ( 624.9)
2007 ( 662.3)
2008 ( 737.3)
2009 ( 771.6) Obama

2010

Qtr1 ( 796.3)
Qtr2 ( 813.0)
Qtr3 ( 830.8)”

You can tax and levy all you want, but the economy will never recover unless spending is stopped. We are at the mercy of insane people leading our nation. Pelosi is one of them:

“PAY AS YOU GO…. NO MORE DEFICIT SPENDING!”, yelled Nancy Pelosi in her address to the U.S. House on January 4, 2007 just one day after Congress was taken over by the Democrats. On that day, the NATIONAL DEBT was $8,670,596,242,973.04.
……as of, 10/25/2010 when I typed this, the NATIONAL DEBT is $13,667,983,325,978.31
……an increase of $4,997,387,083,005.27………….or almost $5 Trillion!