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Originally Posted by Aramike
No problem. I'll start broadly.
To start, use the chart and statistics provided on this page: http://truthandpolitics.com/military-relative-size.php
Go from Nixon, to Carter, to Reagan, to Bush I, to Clinton, to Bush II and see if you can tell a difference. And, keep in mind that a percentage point isn't just $100.
...that's just military spending and doesn't even account for intel. |
As a percentage of discretionary spending, it increases under Carter's Democrat administration by a few percentage points, and decreases under Nixon and Ford's Republican administrations by a whopping 21%, the outcome of their détente policies which lead to large-scale arms reductions....