right, but that wasn't the original point.
It is not really a major discussion, but I was responding to someone else's comparison, not making a comparison of my own.
Intent is part of the discussion here. One tried, one didn't. To put the two together isn't totally correct.
Here is the original comment I was replying to:
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Republicans profess to feel that deficit spending or bloated budgets are a bad thing, but Reagan and GW Bush have blown that claim straight out of the water.
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My opinion was that it was incorrect to lump Reagan and Bush together in this argument. You can't really compare numbers (to signify intent) unless you remove defense from the equation.
In that case, the above comment is absolutely true about Bush and incorrect regarding Reagan.
That being said, there was an increase in overall spending during the 80's but it is not all related to Reagan, that burden falls more heavily on congress.