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To: TimF who wrote (372176)	2/27/2008 2:42:40 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574864

All spending is discretionary by the ordinary English definition of the word. Since we are talking about the Federal Budget then lets use their definition. In any case military spending is also on a long term downtrend as a percentage of non-entitlement spending, even if the downtrend is not as dramatic as if you include entitlements. Do you have some data that military spending is down as a percentage of discretionary spending? And are tax receipts on the dedicated taxes of entitlement programs not also up?