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Originally Posted by Vendzilla
That chart is misleading
military spending is down because we are pulling troops finally
defense spending is up when you look at the expansion of the NSA and HLS
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How is this misleading? Robbie said that defense spending is up under Obama, which is not true. For the first two years, 2008-2010, defense spending did in fact go up under Obama. Then from 2010 - 2013 defense spending went down.
Homeland security is only a very small amount in the budget, in fact about 1/20th of defense spending. On top of that, Homeland Security spending is down nearly 2% for the 2013 budget.