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To: Road Walker who wrote (81046)	8/17/2010 12:38:11 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) of 149317

If I would be wrong it would be a first. In previous cases when there was big chunks of "one off spending", the government spent more after the one off spending was supposed to end (whether or not it actually did), than it did before it was instituted. Even if the specific one off programs are canceled (and not all of them will be), its meaningless in the context of a conversation about the overall increase in spending, if spending keeps going up anyway. We either keep the one off programs, replace them with new "one off" programs, new "permanent" programs, or just expansions of the old programs". If spending went from $1.8tril to $3.8 tril because of one off spending, and then it was going to go back down (even if only say to $3.4tril, rather than way down), your point about one off spending would be an important one (although not all that important since you would still have had an increase of $1.6 tril). But I'd be willing to bet you that this won't happen. The top line will keep growing whether the particular elements are called "one off spending" or not.

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