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Pastimes : Where the GIT's are going -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Augustus Gloop who wrote (136192)	3/1/2007 1:25:57 PM
From: KLP	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 225578

The money that has been spent seems huge, BUT I don't know what the last budget and then spending was for the year 2000 either. Then add inflation compounded for every year since. What is the difference in these numbers now versus then for each the budget, and the actual amounts of spending????? By year???? The thing that worries me about that is there is so little flexibility in our National Budget. Defense is the ONLY real charter/mandate for the Government per the Constitution ("provide for the common defense") but the HUGE Social Programs make it hard to do much of anything else. The number I remember of "spendable" nonpre-committed funds was 20%....that all that is left. That being the case, and then dealing with things like 9-11 and the huge aftermath of that (still going on)...Katrina and the whole Gulf coast a mess....sending money and ships etc to the Tsunami victims of South Asia, and of course the Afghanistan and Iraq war and aftermath....., plus all the security measures we have put into the US at as many levels as we can, and then add to all of that, the massive amount of foreign aid that the US sends all over the world..... So the question is: where should we cut?