By the way, nobody mentioned that one datum that goes against my argument is that the non-defense stuff includes homeland security. Not all of DHS is new, it was partly a roll-up of a bunch of other agencies, only part of it was new money. Not big in the grand scheme of things -- probably less than half a percent of GDP -- but not tiny either.
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> Which is more what I meant to get at. With every cycle it's harder to even
> talk about government as expected to do anything domestically besides law
> enforcement. And with anti-terrorism that mind-set goes global.
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