The bad news is that online spending accounted for only 5.4 percent of all newspaper ad expenditures in 2006, the association reported.

Corporate spending on information technology now accounts for about 7 percent of the economy, double the level of a decade ago, the Commerce Department reported.

By comparison, military spending accounted for 24 percent of the Federal budget.

Other spending accounted for only 3.5 percent of it.

Overall, federal, state, and local spending accounted for almost 28% of gross domestic product in 1998.

Overall, social spending and redistribution accounted for 40% of the poverty reduction, with economic growth doing the rest.

In 1985, military spending accounted for 45.7 percent of the Government budget.

According to the CBO report, federal spending in 2010 accounted for 23.6% of the entire economy.

In 2010, Mandatory spending accounted for 58 percent of total federal budget.

In fiscal year (FY) 2011, mandatory spending accounted for about 60 percent of the federal budget.