You are very incorrect regarding your Reagan statement on spending:
+President Reagan cut the budget of eight agencies out of fifteen during his first term, and ten out of fifteen during his second term.
+President George W. Bush has cut none of the agencies' budgets during his first term.
+President Reagan is the only president to have cut the budget of the Department of Housing and Urban Development in one of his terms (a total of 40.1 percent during his second term).
+President Reagan is the only president to have cut the budget of the Department of Transportation. He cut it by 10.5 percent during his first term and by 7.5 percent during his second term.
+During his first term in office, President Reagan cut the real budget of the Department of Education by 18.6 percent, while President Nixon increased it (that is the education part of what was then the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare) by 19.1 percent. That budget increased by 22.2 percent under Bush 41 and by 38.5 percent under Carter. Our current president has increased it by a whooping 67.6 percent.
+Reagan managed to cut the budget of the Department of Commerce by 29 percent in constant dollars during his first term and by 3 percent during his second one. President Clinton by contrast increased the department's budget by 24 percent in his first term and then by 96.7 percent in his second term.
+President Reagan cut the real budget of the Department of Agriculture by 24 percent during his second term in office.
+President Reagan never cut the budgets of the departments of Defense, Health and Human Services, Justice, or State.
Hmmmm. I'll double check those numbers. Seems to me it was not JUST defense spending that shot thru the roof. Are you sure those are not waht he proposed versus what he got back from Congress?