You need to play with a full deck of statistics. When Reagan took office the US population was 227 million and now it is 300 million. A little less than a third more people. If you count the illegals its another 20 million and it would be a third more population. Welfare per recipient is far less than under Reagan. If we had the same Reagan budget in todays economy the deficient would be over a trillion dollars and if we adjusted for inflation it would be over 2 trillion dollars. Per capita spending on domestic programs is less today when everything is considered.
I am. OMB.gov has all the relevent statistical data anyone could ever need. Some of it goes back to 1940 and even 1790. It doesn't matter how many people live in America. Its how much money is being spent and on what programs. Right now Bush`s overall spending on welfare and entitlement programs is fast approaching 2/3rds of the entire federal budget. Bush has done a remarkable job in prosecuting the WOT, but he's slacking off on funding for national defense in the budget. The data is quite clear.
>>>>If we had the same Reagan budget in todays economy the deficient would be over a trillion dollars and if we adjusted for inflation it would be over 2 trillion dollars.
LOL And you say I'm not playing with a full deck of statistics. I think I know where you're pulling your data from and its not coming from OMB.gov. Your pulling data from a space called, 'uranus'.