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02/03/2007 Archived Entry: "Bush budget increases for war bigger than Kennedy's entire federal budget"

EVERY TIME I SEE BUSH ASKING FOR ANOTHER $100 BILLION for some momentary uptick in his warmaking, I recall that John F. Kennedy presided over the entire country with smaller annual budgets than that. Butler Shaffer has a brief bit of trivia and a wry comment about that very thing.

Posted by Claire @ 09:42 AM CST
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