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Originally Posted by Rearden
Defense spending is relatively low, after you normalize it. It's the entitlement programs that continue to grow. Look what the Great Society brought us: lots of debt, and an underclass dependent on the government. And you want more and more and more.
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That chart is a good one, something Ron Paul would bring up while everyone else in both parties runs for cover.
From what I read the non-military related budget has increased 11% under Bush Cheney and the Republican Congress.
The great pharmaceutical company give-away (Medicaid Reform), partial funding of No-Child-Left-Behind and all around pork barrel spending makes up a another good part of it.
One very large line item expense has been Homeland Defense spending, I'll get too angry trying to explain how that money has been squandered.