Federal spending went up because of rising outlays for defense.

Public spending in law and order might not go down.

When serious spending goes on - and some still does - it is at the top of the Hollywood pyramid.

If you go out several years, spending is going to slow a lot.

But the Tigers have demonstrated that a little spending can go a long way.

And if spending went up to $140 million the next year, the relative worth of the tax credit would be even less.

In that same period of time, states' spending on prisons went up 189 percent.

I understand public spending is going to rise each year from now to 2015.

Too much environmental spending is still going to projects concerned with so-called water infrastructure.

So the country's day-to-day spending goes on and its capital investment is cut back.