The system Obama is bringing into being may fairly be called crony capitalism, but it is also corporatism - which is simply fascism by another name. If you want to do Americans a service, and educate them at the same time, make the connection between socialism and fascism, heretofore hidden by leftists in academia and elsewhere.
I'm sure the biggest government spender in world history would be someone like Nero or other emperors/monarchs who had the state treasury at their disposal, and many spent those treasuries into nothing, sometimes multiple times over.
The article attached to this question is not journalism; rather, it is a political hit job.
"But you know, why would he go out there waiving an article that could immediately be debunked? Maybe because he thought it was true. That’s more alarming, isn’t it, the idea that he knows so little about the effects of his own economic program that he thinks he really is a low spender.”"
In terms of excess/population ratio my best guess would be someone like Caligula or Nero, one of the Roman Emperors or one of the Chinese emperors perhaps.
The article attached to this question is not journalism; rather, it is a political hit job.
"But you know, why would he go out there waiving an article that could immediately be debunked? Maybe because he thought it was true. That’s more alarming, isn’t it, the idea that he knows so little about the effects of his own economic program that he thinks he really is a low spender.”"