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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: TimF who wrote (175217)9/17/2003 7:48:56 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (2) of 1578069
 
There is no money for the butter.......all non military expenditures have been cut while defense is growing.

If you actually believe that then you are ignorant about government spending. Non defense government spending has increase more then defense spending in dollar terms.

I looked up the 2002 and 2003 budgets from the Office of Management and Budget. And you are right to a degree. During the year, non defense did grow but defense spending grew much, much faster both by dollar amount and percentage. Defense went up nearly $50 billion from $336 to $382 billion. Non defense went up $23 billion from $382 to $405 billion.

However, if you look closely and take out the Mandatory budget items including Medicare, Medicaid and SS which are forced to go up due to the aging population, spending for non defense budget items declined. That's a disgrace.

Worse, defense makes up nearly HALF of the discretionary portion of the budget. And you're crying that we are shorting ourselves in terms of defense.

Now that's what I call ridiculous!

w3.access.gpo.gov

In other words we are buying more and more butter (and pork) each year. I hoped Bush would slow this down but he has not. If you want to attack Bush as a spendthrift, be my guest but the statement "all non military expenditures have been cut" is simply false.

Maybe a touch but that's all. The disgrace is our defense budget........its out of control. I can't wait to see this year's budget.

ted
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