[FreeReign]

Just curious, how did you total "welfare"? What functions, subfunctions from the OMB data did you total? Where did you get figures for canceled debt? Where did you get figures for IMF and World Bank spending from US funds? Did you really gather the data or are you just making a guess?

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See table 1.2. Add the "Off-Budget as a Percentage of GDP" to the "On-Budget as a Percentage of GDP".

[Dont_Tread_On_Me_888]

As a % of GDP is not what I said. I said raw dollars.

However, it seems you made an error. The highest % of GDP spent on Human Resources during Reagan's time was 12.4%. Bush has been spending 12.7 up to 13.0% of GDP for Human Resources. So, it seems that Bush has outspent Reagan using your measurement, even though this is not what I stated (I stated raw dollars).