Can Ezra Klein Count?

Statist L.A. Times columnist Ezra Klein reports:

What's so wrong, in other words, with hollowing out the public sector and replacing it with a pay-as-you-go society? It is the natural endpoint, after all, of the privatization craze, of the gospel of tax cuts and of the smaller-government-is-better-government mentality that has been on the ascendancy in the U.S. for nearly 25 years.

The Departments of Education and Energy are still around.We now have the new Department of Homeland Security.Rich old guys that own whole insurance companies like Warren Buffett can get free medical care from the federal government.Since,the federal budget is now over 4 times as large as when Ronald Reagan took office in 1981:can Ezra Klein count?