It was an intersting article you posted. I looked up some of the answers to the questions it raised to see how one dimential the authors were? Here is the answers I found!...
Population of USA in 1910 was===76,212,168...
Population of USA in 2008 was===303,202,683...
Population of California in 1910 was===2,377,549...
Population of California in 2008 was===36,756,766...(source WikiAnswers.)
You will have to admit the growth in the population had something to do with the expanding budgets we see today...Lol...Lol...
Gil...