What's the Truth?
"To balance the budget in 7 years, Congress and the President have mandated annual reductions in non-mandatory ("discretionary") government spending.
The FY97 budget approved on September 30 increased military spending, forcing large reductions in the total amount of civilian spending to achieve deficit goals.
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed." - Former U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower
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