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Discretionary Spending Hits Record Levels Under Bush
"HarryKrause" wrote in message ... Discretionary Spending Reaches Record Levels Under Bush "Discretionary spending" -- meaning spending that is subject to annual legislative appropriations, as opposed to spending for entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare -- actually grew only 5.6% in Clinton 's last budget year (fiscal year 2001, which began October 1, 2000 ). Since then discretionary spending has not "steadily declined" as the President said, but has gone up. In fact, the growth has been much faster than under Clinton . In the first year for which President Bush signed the spending bills discretionary spending growth soared to 13.1%, and annual growth remained in double digits through the current fiscal year." http://www.factcheck.org/article.aspx?docID=139 "Discretionary spending -- meaning spending that is subject to annual legislative appropriations, as opposed to spending for entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare -- actually grew only 5.6% in Clinton 's last budget year (fiscal year 2001, which began October 1, 2000. Nice try. Remember that this article is from February 2004. Discretionary spending over the first three years of Bush's term increased by 16%, excluding Homeland Security and DOD spending. A 16% jump in three years is roughly 5% per year. Clinton's discretionary spending increased 5.6% in his final budget year (beginning in October 2000). However, Clinton *cut* military spending...which means his non-military discretionary spending increases exceeded Bush's. |
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Yea but Clinton's IQ exceeded 100. Beyond that Clinton didn't bring a
lie to the UN and the American people that cost this country billions of dollars in a war we do not need. And despite being a registered republican I must admit that GW is a joke and has done absolutely nothing for this country since the day he took office. RM |
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