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To: TigerPaw who wrote (11421)	5/1/2002 11:04:37 AM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21057

In your statements there is an amazing ability to separate one set of general facts, like total spending, from other sets of general facts, like GDP I separate these facts because they are separate. Increases in GDP give us the ability to have a bigger government without bankrupting the country but it doesn't give any reason to have bigger government. Do you really think that with a weak and poor central government our country would last 6 weeks in the world politic? Domestic spending has little relationship to international relations. The spending for defense, for the state department, for the border patrol, for foreign aid, ect. is only a small part of our total government spending and the % of total government spending that is on these things has decreased almost every single year since the 80s. In most years the inflation adjusted spending in these areas has gone down while total government spending has increased every year during that period. Tim