Thomas McClintock actually said...

It is estimated that up to 1 billion board feet of fire-killed timber can still be salvaged out of the forests that have been devastated by ...

If you want timely salvage operations in Yosemite or anywhere else in the country--if that's really your goal--fund the Government.

But even factoring that out, just in nominal terms, 60 percent increase in Federal spending in 4 years is rather breathtaking.

Coolidge, Truman, Kennedy, Reagan, Clinton all cut spending relative to GDP.