As it reads.

Military spending was doubled in 2003 to 855bil. In 2018 it's 874bil. That's 19bil increase in 15 years.

In the UK we were 30bil in 2003. In 2018 were 47bil.

In terms of trump's spending in military it's practically the same as it was in 2003.

I mean if you base it off GDP as most people do. US is 3.1% and UK is 2.4%

So to say he's increasing military spending massively is not true compared to the bush era.

In comparison Obama brought in Medicare which is currently at £413bil. Which is probably why republicans are desperate to get rid off it.

Posted By: Basingstoke_Canary_J on November 7th 2018 at 13:16:19

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As results firm up over the pond, interesting piece from Danny Finkelstein this morning (General Chat) - Old Man, Nov 7, 08:12:42
- Good article (n/m) (General Chat) - John in Texas, Nov 7, 13:43:11
- It is worth noting (General Chat) - Basingstoke_Canary_J, Nov 7, 10:05:54
  - Improve the country? Maybe, in the short term. But there's a huge and rapidly growing budg (General Chat) - Higher Wrather, Nov 7, 10:54:23
    - Yes it's going up (General Chat) - Basingstoke_Canary_J, Nov 7, 12:55:56
      - A lot more complicated than that (General Chat) - Tressells Broadbrush, Nov 7, 13:26:00
        
        Fair enough (General Chat) - Basingstoke_Canary_J, Nov 7, 13:49:25
        
        So, that was a bit snide from me... (General Chat) - atlcanary, Nov 7, 14:31:44
        
        That's something I can agree on (General Chat) - Basingstoke_Canary_J, Nov 7, 15:19:35
        
        Which part of the States is Basingstokevin again? (n/m) (General Chat) - atlcanary, Nov 7, 14:25:24
        
        Delaware (General Chat) - Basingstoke_Canary_J, Nov 7, 15:22:01
    - They want to slash welfare programmes (General Chat) - mr carra, Nov 7, 11:26:14
      - Interesting summary here... (General Chat) - Higher Wrather, Nov 7, 12:22:47
        
        As it reads. (General Chat) - Basingstoke_Canary_J, Nov 7, 13:16:19
        
        "compared with the Bush era" - that's when it ballooned, to pay for W's war (a GOP enter (General Chat) - Higher Wrather, Nov 7, 15:22:36
        
        And if they cut the budget by 1% or 250bil? (General Chat) - Basingstoke_Canary_J, Nov 7, 15:24:37
        
        Has the trillions spent since 2003 made the world safer? (n/m) (General Chat) - Higher Wrather, Nov 7, 16:05:15
        
        or indeed since the Bush Snr Iraq war? (n/m) (General Chat) - Higher Wrather, Nov 7, 16:08:30
        
        Just one point (General Chat) - John in Texas, Nov 7, 13:46:06
        
        Apologies (General Chat) - Basingstoke_Canary_J, Nov 7, 14:02:30
  - It would be good for both us and the US (General Chat) - Basingstoke_Canary_J, Nov 7, 10:07:19
    - Spot on. Unfortunately the world gets more tribal by (General Chat) - SeattleSounders, Nov 7, 13:55:25
- That's excellent, thanks OM. Do you have a link? (n/m) (General Chat) - Dunney, Nov 7, 09:18:15
- Can you elaborate on that please ? (n/m) (General Chat) - Augustus Pablo, Nov 7, 08:17:23

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