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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: koan who wrote (68633)	4/27/2018 1:03:20 PM
From: zzpat	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 356327

We're spending more on the military now than we spent during the Cold War. The USSR fell in 1991. Military spending was $500 billion (a good chunk of that was pure waste. Under Carter, Ford, and Nixon it was far lower, in the $300 billion area). Today, military spending is closer to $700 billion. 54% of the budget is military spending. They're not fiscal conservatives. They're power shoppers who spend money that hasn't been created yet. Then they cut taxes so they can bankrupt us faster.

To: koan who wrote (68633)	4/27/2018 1:51:46 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 356327

Yes because entitlements are worthwhile programs that help the people. An idea which is relevant if were discussing "should we have entitlements" or perhaps "should we have this particular list of programs" where the list is of actual entitlement programs or at least contains them. Not so much when the point is about where the money was spent. The increase in government spending over the years didn't go to defense, it went to entitlements. You can argue that's a good thing, my point is meerly that its a true thing. I'm describing what happened not making judgements on it here. Good or bad or indifferent it happened that way and is still happening that way. fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com