[Reagan Man]

Discretionary spending has gone up under Bush43. Went down under Reagan. A few graphs to show just how big a spender Bush43 has been over the last five years, compared to other recent presidents and also the Gingrich Congress, who kept Clinton in line on spending. Btw, Regan also reduced welfare and entitlement sepnding during his eight years in office. Under Bush43, welfare and entitlement spending has gone way up. Especially, Medicare spending.

[Stellar Dendrite]

Great post.

[TheForceOfOne]

Its a horrible Bush economy, but if it were a Clinton economy, then it would be a great economy. /sarcasm.

[FreeReign]

Discretionary spending has gone up under Bush43. Went down under Reagan.

Your statement is pretty misleading. Descretionary spending as a percentage of GDP was higher for Reagan than it is for Bush.

The starting point for any "descretionary spending" is zero. It's irrelevant what the level of discrestionary spending was previous to both Reagan's or Bush's descresionary budgets.