[WOSG]

You know, we should not browbeat on nondefense discretionary only.

The historical document shows clearly that spending increased in many areas, but most particularly in defense and homeland security:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2005/pdf/hist.pdf

Frankly, I am also a bit peeved that they are adding more defense spending and homeland security spending. My reason is this: We already got bump ups in the last 2 years, they are already up 20-30%. Why another increment?

[AntiGuv]

You will get no disagreement from me. It's just that the enormous gulf between the conservative budget policies of Reagan and the liberal budget policies of Bush is least evident in the category of defense spending.

If it were up to me, I would cut entitlements, nondefense, and defense spending - but then again I would have a radically different foreign policy from that of at least the past three administrations.