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Politics : American Presidential Politics and foreign affairs
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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (48913)1/5/2012 10:40:42 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 71588
 
Doesn't at all mean that it happened IN THIS INSTANCE

1 - I wasn't talking about an instance. I was talking about the history in general.

2 - If I had been making a case that since it was generally so in the past, then it 100% had to be for some specific past instance, it wouldn't be the fallacy of composition. It would be closer to the fallacy of division, but even that wouldn't really fit. It might be considered a hasty generalization, or just making a conclusion that was too strong to be supported by the argument.

Nothing that is both "structural" (i.e., built-in so it continues in all future budgets)

Its built in to the way budgets work in DC. Its not as built in as an actual entitlement, but even entitlements are not 100% built in (they could be canceled with the passage of one law). Structural isn't really a binary thing. Spending is more or less structural, more than its structural or not structural. Spending for a war is less structural than any other spending (assuming the war doesn't drag on for generations).

Obamacare is rather structural. Spending hasn't been large yet, but it will result in a lot of spending in the future if it is left in place.

If your only considering new entitlement programs to be structural, then most of the new spending in the years leading up to Obama becoming president wasn't structural. Medicare Part D spending was very small compared to the overall increase.
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