Alex,
In your pursuit to pick apart the details, you miss the overall point. Despite the right-wing retoric, the size of the federal government has not increased significantly in the last 30 years. Since 1980 federal spending in relation to the GDP, although it has fluctuated, has stayed right around 20%. The biggest jump - 20.7% to 24.7% - was in 2009 due to TARP and the stimulus. Interestingly enough, Federal receipts (the money it takes in - mostly from taxes) went down from 17.5% in 2008 to 14.8% in 2009. In fact, federal receipts as a percentage of the GDP are currently the lowest they have been since 1950.
In other words... We don't have a spending problem, we have a revenue shortfall.
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(ETA: Take a look at the chart I linked to. Notice which president spent the most money before 2009, and look who spent the least.)