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To: tejek who wrote (870208)	9/8/2015 2:55:40 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) of 1575982

At most federal spending has entered a very short term pause, staying about the same for a few years. But unless entitlement spending is restrained there is absolutely no way to change the underlying trend to more government spending. Longer term, the beginning of every decade except 1880 (where marginally less was spent then in 1870) and 1830 (where the feds spent the same as in 1820) spending has gone up. Most of that before entitlements even exist. Total (rather then just federal) government spending has increased for every single decade. It did pause from 2009 to 2014, staying essentially flat, but its already going up again, and is projected to go up strongly the rest of the decade; and probably indefinitely or until the cut in Social Security spending when the nominal value of the trust fund reaches zero (unless the law is changed to eliminate that cut). Even if you cherry pick your data, you can't get more than very slight (and very temporary) cut. But then of course according to you any cut at all is cutting to much. (Unless its a cut in defense and even then you would probably want the money saved to go in to social programs not an overall cut in spending.)

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