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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Red Heeler who wrote (520045)1/6/2004 12:24:11 AM
From: Oeconomicus  Read Replies (1) of 769667
 
31.5% growth since Bush took office in discretionary spending

Bulls#!t. Discretionary federal spending has not risen 31.5% under Bush. To get a number like that (or the $209B number quoted), you have to take estimates of FY2004 spending against Clinton's next-to-last budget year, FY2000. The reality is that discretionary spending rose 21.9% from Clinton's last budget year, FY2001, to FY2003. Furthermore, half of that 21.9% increase was spending on national defense, coming in response to 9/11. A large chunk of the rise in domestic non-defense spending was also attributable to 9/11-related security and other spending as indicated in the article.

But more importantly, discretionary spending is only slated to rise by 3.5% this year and 3.8% in 2005. Hardly "vexing".
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