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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (455934)	9/10/2003 8:52:42 AM
From: Peter O'Brien	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

I would say that the $525 billion deficit must be caused primarily by the 84% of the federal budget that is NOT spent on defense. Why are you focusing on only 16% of the total budget as being the primary "cause" of the deficit? I would say that the fact that we typically spent over 50% of the budget on defense several decades ago (compared to under 20% today) means that our spending priorities have become severely distorted. I would say that taxes are still too high and that non-defense spending should be drastically cut to eliminate the deficit. learner.org