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To: Broken_Clock who wrote (24103)	8/19/2012 9:02:32 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 85487

FBI isn't defense spending. Neither is the State Department. The interest on the debt, well that's real, but its overestimated, since even with today's reckless deficits, a lot of government spending is paid for by taxes (and since its "past wars", the percentage would be even higher) Even 23% of the interest (the low end given by your source) could be too high, since less then 23% of spending has been for "past wars', and since current defense spending is lower than that as a percentage of total spending. . Then if your going to add by activity, you would have to remove expenses for humanitarian non-combat missions, and for a portion of the force to deal with such things, but that would be a pretty modest decrease.