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Politics : Mainstream Politics and Economics
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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (24100)8/19/2012 9:29:04 PM
From: TimF1 Recommendation  Read Replies (1) of 85487
 
You're right; it's all of defense plus 2 unfunded wars

No its entitlements.

kept entirely off budget by Bush.

False.

As for your chart showing percentage increase for different policies, the increase in non-military spending is larger than the entire deficit, so using the same logic that chart uses, non-military spending accounts for over 100% of the increase in the deficit. Using the logic you use to say "no TARP, almost no stim", its just as easily "no defense, no wars". Which is not to say that military (both war and non-war) spending has not contributed towards the deficits and debt, but that the logic the chart uses is lousy, which is easily demonstrated by turning it around the way I did.
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