"compared with the Bush era" - that's when it ballooned, to pay for W's war (a GOP enter

prise). The point is the GOP are spending money they don't have, and the bulk of it is military spending. That is more than the next ten biggest programmes.

Posted By: Higher Wrather on November 7th 2018 at 15:22:36

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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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