Ummm what? It was your chart that proudly posted back in post #374 a spending comparison of "Reagan and Bush's first terms".
BTW, the only real increase in Bush's discretionary budget in 2003 relative to GDP was Bush's Homeland Defense expenditures.
Like Reagan and the cold war, Bush has a war to fight. Only this one requires expenditures at home that don't fall under the DOD spending umbrella.
Umm, well.. It is your chart which ignores the final two years of even that.
BTW, the only real increase in Bush's discretionary budget in 2003 relative to GDP was Bush's Homeland Defense expenditures.
Also false on its face. Homeland Security accounts for 1.3% of total outlays as of the most recently proposed budget. That is a doubling of outlays versus the same items in the 2001 budget (Clinton's last). Total non-military discretionary spending amounts to 19.4%+ versus 17.2% of federal outlays in 2001.
That means that Homeland Security amounts for only 0.65% out of a total 2.2% increase in the proportion of non-military non-discretionary spending, which means that non-Homeland Security items account for the remaining 1.55%.
Stated differently, Homeland Security accounts for less than one-third of the 20.8% Bush expansion of non-military real discretionary spending.