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You are correct but first you must understand the context behind my point.
I was responding to a post that equated the increased spending by Bush Jr. with the spending habits of Reagan.
Reagan actually tried, very hard, to lower overall spending by the government. It was one of his passions. He increased defense spending because he was doing his best to protect America (a totally different topic altogether).
So, if you remove defense spending from the equation, you see a President that worked at lowering spending versus what we are seeing with Bush Jr.
A lot of people don't count an increase in certain public goods as a "spend happy" administration.
So, you have President, on one hand, that tried to decrease overall spending but didn't and another President that said he would decrease overall spending, but did the opposite.
You can't really compare the two, which was my original point.
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