Originally posted by EternalOne:
Perhaps he missed the part about how discretionary spending was actually lowered during Bush's term in office, and that the spending actually went towards National Security initiatives, such as creating the Dept of Homeland Security and fighting the War on Terror. I just love one-sided facts.
E1
In case you didn't learn enough from the previous posts then here is a little more reading.
"Spending has increased twice as fast under President Bush as it did under President Clinton. From 2001 to 2003 total spending grew by 16 percent. Certainly the terror attacks of 9/11 placed additional demands on spending for homeland security, a strong defense, and rebuilding New York. However, this accounts for less than half of the new spending that has occurred since 9/11 ."
"Presidents Roosevelt and Truman signed budgets during World War II and the Korean War which actually decreased non-defense spending. However, we saw no such balancing of our fiscal checkbook after 9/11. Instead we saw a spending spree in Washington where budgets written by Congress and signed by the President during the War on Terror actually grew non-defense spending by 11 percent during this period."
the link:
http://www.heritage.org/Research/Budget/wm398.cfm
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