“Yes, that’s why I posted a chart with percentage change since 2011 in the title at the top of the chart, to mislead.”
That’s exactly what that chart does - mislead. If you posted one of absolute budgets, it would look very different, it wouldn’t give the appearance of “we’ve got to catch up” that bureaucrats such as yourself like to portray.
It's a conspiracy, but we are not supposed to tell you.
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