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You know that Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security are not discretionary, amount to 217% of defense spending and 115% of total discretionary spending.
Right?
(FY2009 numbers)
Could you link to the numbers in particular you're talking about, because that flys in the face of anything I"ve read in terms of government spending.
Unless you're combining those three things together and saying that three things COMBINED is bigger than Defense by itself.
Which...well, yeah. Same would be true if you added Defense and Social Security together and compared it to Medicare, or any other way you want to combine two of the big 3 and compare it to the other.