Jeb Hensarling: “for only the fourth time in the history of our Nation, the Federal Government is now spending over $20,000 per family.…”

“for only the fourth time in the history of our Nation, the Federal Government is now spending over $20,000 per family. This figure is up from $16,000 per family just 5 years ago, representing the largest expansion of the Federal Government in 50 years. Almost every government department has grown over some large multiple over inflation. We are experiencing an explosion of the Federal budget at the expense of the family budget. Unfortunately, too often this government spending equates to waste, fraud, abuse and duplication and has for decades. Mr. Chairman, I belong to a group known as the Washington Waste Watchers, a Republican working group dedicated to rooting out waste, fraud, abuse and duplication in the Federal Government, and it is not an easy task, because what has accumulated in the Federal city over many decades is now 10,000 different Federal programs spread across 600 different Federal agencies, accountable to almost no one, with little transparency and poor knowledge of their activities.”