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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (24115)	8/20/2012 8:26:41 AM
From: TimF	1 Recommendation Respond to of 85487

What's that word you just used? False. Your incorrect in that assessment, they are the biggest part of the budget, and the most rapidly growing out of any of the big areas for spending. The war spending is tiny compared to them (and not off budget in any meaningful way, it was passed by congress, signed by the president, and its publicly available information). Even the entirety of defense and military spending is small compared to entitlement. the U.S. military has largely paid for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan through emergency spending measures, in effect keeping wartime costs off the books. Emergency spending measures are on the books.