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The more it consumes Congress' attention and the nastier it gets, the angrier the public will become.
According to his numbers, government at all levels currently consumes about 38 percent of personal income.
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.
Government spending consumes resources.