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To: TigerPaw who wrote (947)	6/30/2008 6:29:19 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3816

So do social security and farm spending not count? Many farm price supports can be seen as "corporate welfare" (since most of the money goes to agribusiness) rather than a social program, but Social Security is the biggest social program (and was biggest by a larger extent back then). As for the rest they where not increased only with population increases. Medicaid was less than a billion dollars in 1966. $6.5bil in 1971, and an average growth rate of 18 percent per year from 1972 to 1976. cms.hhs.gov Similarly Medicare spending increased under Nixon. I don't know the details of the smaller programs at the time, but Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security, then and now, are the majority of social spending. If some program 1/100th the size of Social Security shrank while SS expanded it doesn't make much sense to say social spending went down.