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To: Sully- who wrote (81498)	9/14/2010 9:52:25 PM
From: TimF	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

Marxist Place: "non-defense spending has already been pared down" I almost ran off the road this morning when I heard Marxist Place's Nancy Marshall Ginzer utter that "non-defense spending has already been pared down." It's been pared down about as much as a morbidly obese person making a fifth pass at the buffet line. CBO data (here, p. 7) indicate that non-defense discretionary spending increased to $655.9B in 2009 from $306.1B in 2001. For the mathematically challenged, that's more than a doubling in less than a decade. Nor has spending been "pared down" in 2010. CBO data (here, p. 2) indicate that non-defense and non-entitlement spending (labeled "Other Activities" in the table) is up 9.1% so far this year. HT to Mike Hammock for "Marxist Place" UPDATE: See also Chris Westley's take on "Marx's Place." divisionoflabour.com