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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (217132)	2/3/2005 5:36:56 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573610

re: "Mandatory" spending includes pretty much every single social program out there, while "discretionary" includes all of defense spending. I guess in those terms, it's a lot easier to disband the military than it is to stop social spending. Which, come to think of it, would suit a lot of lefties just fine. I think mandatory spending also includes military pensions and benefits, but that's beside the point. Kicking around I found that the "Unified Budget", which includes income from programs like Social Security, was put into place in the '60 during Vietnam. So it was a "strategy" to hide the cost of war. But it stuck... why do the politicians (both parties) try to hide the truth? John