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According to his numbers, government at all levels currently consumes about 38 percent of personal income.
Government spending consumes resources.
It is not just technophobes who wonder whether a society that consumes 90% of the world's supply of methylphenidate (Ritalin), where the most profitable class of drugs is antidepressants, and where cosmetic surgeons perform liposuction on prime-time television is a society that has somehow lost its way.
A kindred ambivalence marks Kusama's "Food Obsession" sculptures, inspired, she claimed, by the image of all the food a person consumes in a lifetime passing by on a conveyor belt.
"The typical American eats 20 pounds of fresh apples each year," whereas "the typical European consumes about 46 pounds," said Clinton.