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To: TigerPaw who wrote (898)6/26/2008 11:48:46 PM
From: Oeconomicus  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 3816
 
"Only after he cut funding to just about everything else."

Wrong again, chief. Non-defense discretionary spending rose by 20% in real terms from 1969 to 1974. Non-discretionary spending rose 61% in real terms over the same period and within that, means-tested entitlements spending rose by 83%.

One more and you strike out.