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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Road Walker who wrote (300155)8/18/2006 11:41:03 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 1572025
 
The military would have been shrunk whoever was president because it could be shrunk due to the end of the cold war. It probably shrank more because of Clinton, so if your looking to grade the change only in terms of deficit reduction, you can from a certain perspective give that part of the reduction mostly to Clinton.

But before the Republicans took office non-military spending was projected to increase a lot more than it did, some of that money coming from the military cuts. Clinton was going to spend the money anyway, so it could reasonably be argued that he shouldn't get the credit.
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