A few days ago, I linked you to a TV special that one of my heroes, Stan Freberg, produced and wrote and starred in in 1962. Its goal, you may recall, was to sell canned Chinese Food. Well, here's a special he did for Public Television in 1980 with some of the same actors. The goal of this one was to sell the idea that the U.S. Government spends too much money…and Freberg, being Freberg, appropriately spent way too much money to make the special.
It's called The Federal Budget Revue and all the numbers cited in it about how much the government spends are all laughably low today — but the principle is pretty much the same. The budget for the year 1980 was, as Stan notes in the show, $600 billion dollars. The budget for 2024 was $6.75 trillion. Trump will probably spend $600 billion playing golf, building his silly ballroom and refurbishing that "free" airplane he was given…