Data Point - Do we need a bake sale for Dept of Defense? - Granite Grok

Data Point – Do we need a bake sale for Dept of Defense?

1970 to 2013 - Spending for SSA DoD HHS Treasury and Foreign AidYears ago, one of the Left’s favorite bumper sticker said that they would have achieved their goal when instead of schools having bake sales, the Department of Defense had to have one.  The idea was also summed up by the phrase “Make Love Not War”.  Now, education, peace, and love are nice things, important things – but so is the ability to defend oneself. Well, from a great new interactive tool from the CATO Institute comes this chart that shows spending for Federal Departments from 1970 to 2013 that shows that those Leftist nostrums are now coming true.  I picked:

  • Social Security Administration (due to the Boomers retiring)
  • Department of Defense (to see the effects of Obama as C-in-C)
  • Department of Health and Human Services (as I have felt that our welfare state has been growing out of control, especially under Obama)
  • Department of the Treasury (to see the effects of the “stimulus” spending and if it has slowed)
  • International Aid Programs (because it seems every TEA Party rally has folks railing against this kind of spending)

Big picture after the jump and H/T: Townhall

1970 to 2013 - Spending for SSA DoD HHS Treasury and Foreign Aid

(Click on it for even bigger)

Well, it is clear that over the last two decades, we’ve see how the Progressives have grown government – and that rate of increase has been growing.  They’ve been turning their spending eye inward and instituting the foreign idea that Government should be all about “positive liberties” – what Government SHOULD be doing versus what the Framers idea of “negative liberties” (so as to protect our liberties); in this we are looking more like just any other European socialist country and the increase in the “Welfare State” should be alarming us all.

What is also worrisome is the imputed downward trajectory of the Defense Department – even as we are still involved in a war and a number of skirmishes against stateless politico-religious Islamic Jihadis and may soon involved in another called Syria.  Such is the action of our Nobel Peace Prize President – he has more ways to redefine “war” than Clinton did for “is” and “sex”.

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