[Mudbug]

I don't know what that table is meant to portray, but I think it's very misleading to compare actual "discretionary % change" with proposed "deiscretionary % change through 2004" without providing further background.

A percent change from what? I wouldn't expect the difference in "discretionary spending" from say, 1980 to 1984 to be the same as between "2001 and projected 2004" because the world is different today.

Bogus and meaningless chart.

[AntiGuv]

A percent change from what?

From Carter's and Clinton's last budget, respectively...

Bogus and meaningless chart.

Umm, no. Just because you don't like what the chart says doesn't make it bogus and meaningless. Sorry 'bout that...

[AntiGuv]

And on this:

I don't know what that table is meant to portray...

It's self-evidently meant to portray the expansion of welfare and pork spending under Bush, versus the contraction of welfare and pork spending under Reagan.