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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.... |
Are we looking at the same numbers? It DECREASED under Carter's administration.
I'm not going further back than that because modern democrats are not very similar to dems from about 50 years ago. |
I'm citing whatever page you posted. The second table.
1976 51.2
1977 49.5
1978 47.8
1979 48.7
1980 48.7
1981 51.3
1982 57.0
A dip at the start of his administration but ends [slightly] higher than it began. |
Heh, then look at 1982. Bottom line is one must look at the AVERAGE of the term, however. There's no point in just looking at a single year as that is not representative of what the spending actually was throughout the term.