President Obama and his top officials embarked on a public relations blitz last past week evidently designed to portray him as “pro growth.” All such political PR pushes tend to bear tenuous relationships with reality, but in this case the gulf between the truth and what the politicians are saying is about as wide as the Grand Canyon. Say what he will, Obama’s actions since his first day in office have made clear that his business is growing government. On all three basic measures of the size of government — work force, spending, and taxes — Obama has stimulated tremendous growth.
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