Feb 23, 2012 ... "When I was born, less than 10 percent of the federal budget was entitlement spending. It's now 60 percent of the budget," Santorum said. "Some people have suggested that defense spending is the problem. When I was born, defense spending was 60 percent of the budget. It's now 17 percent. If you think ...
America's poor children did not ask to be born; did not choose their parents, country, state, neighborhood, race, color, or faith. .... Reducing child poverty 60 percent with these improvements was estimated to cost $77.2 billion in 2010, only 2 percent of U.S. government spending that year, 0.5 percent of the 2010 U.S. gross ...
May 23, 2017 ... Rush Holt, CEO of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, said a preliminary analysis indicates that the Trump budget would cut about 17 percent from the overall federal research effort. Holt, a physicist and former Democratic congressman from New Jersey, said cuts to research would ...
Jul 21, 2015 ... Military spending as percentage of GDP is interesting as the US clocks in at 3.5%, China at an estimated 2.06%, and Oman at a whopping 11.6%. Of course, the GDP numbers are misleading as the US far outspends every other nation for its military, at over $500 billion, with China coming second at over ...
Dec 5, 2016 ... The Budget Control Act cuts have only deferred spending on defense, not eliminated it, Talent argued: It's just “pushing the can down the road.” The troops ... for entitlements I've ever heard, and I was startled to hear it from a Democrat; even conservative Republicans normally say something like 60 percent).
When I was born, defense spending was 60 percent of the budget. It's now 17 percent.