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To: TimF who wrote (103266)	2/6/2009 3:55:38 AM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (2) of 542033

>>Its not really an issue for opinion. It hard and fast facts. The budgets are matters of public record. Last budget submitted by Clinton. $1.9 trillion total spending. $292.3 billion defense spending. Last budget submitted by Bush $3.1 tril, defense spending $515.4 billion, suplmental "War on Terror" spending $145.2 billion. Total defense $660.6 Increase in defense spending $368bil Increase in total spending $1200 bil So increase in non defense spending is $832 bil<< Tim - So by those figures, defense spending increased by a more than 120%, and non-defense spending increased by roughly 50%. Meanwhile, despite what was characterized as a national defense emergency, taxes were being cut. I don't know. To me, it really does seem that both the tax cuts and the military spending increases are fair targets for criticism, and to a greater extent than the non-defense spending increase is. Given that Bush and his Republican-controlled Congresses (throughout most of the period) were fully aware of the increases in spending, I'd say it was damned irresponsible of them to cut taxes the way they did. But I can see how others might view this differently. - Allen

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