Quick pic.twitter from Mike

Tweet from Mike on longer term trend in the yearly top-line government spending ("cash basis"):

Fed'l spending has slowed, but remains high. Unfortunately, most of those flows have gone to corps, not individuals. pic.twitter.com/roa4QydRWa

— Michael Norman (@mikenorman) December 18, 2013

The more recent short term non-existent government top-line spending growth coupled with the intermediate term slight reduction we can see in Mike's chart is leaving the economy to AT BEST deliver marginally positive GDP growth of late.