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To: TimF who wrote (482513)	5/21/2009 3:25:39 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1574046

The key relevant point in your quote is "It went up as high as 37.8% during the war." When it was at 37.8% our military spending was far beyond that of any other country in the world. There's no way of knowing....the info doesn't exist....I looked. That means in 2003 military spending is 50% of US discretionary spending. And in 1944 it was over 85% of ALL government spending. In 1955 it was about 64% of all government spending. Fifteen years later 1970 it was about 48% of all government spending. Move forward another 15 years (1985) and it was over 31%, another 15 years to 2000 and it was 20%, for 2009 it was up a bit to around around 20.5%. (Spending figures are from usgovernmentspending.com; Thanks for making my point........discretionary spending has increased dramatically in the last 50 years since WW II ended.....so that 50% or 30% is a huge sum of money. And its only down to 20% for 2009 because of the stimulus bill.