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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (217076)2/3/2005 1:55:13 PM
From: Joe NYC  Read Replies (1) of 1573429
 
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maybe defense is 1/3 of our "discretionary" budget. Of course, that all depends on what your definition of "discretionary" is. ;-)

Hmm... I will have to look into it. I seem to recall that during Eisenhower and Kenned era, defense was around 50% of the entire federal budget. This before a lot of the "non-discretionary" spending even existed, and SS was still small, working population large, people had more children, old people died shortly after retiring (if they lived that long).

Joe
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