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waterlesscloud on May 17, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: 50 Years Of Government Spending, In 1 Graph

"The figures in the graph include veterans' benefits as well as funding for current operations."

gruseom on May 17, 2012 [–]

That suggests that the off-budget wars were not included.

Edit: never mind. I was referring to what they call the "unfunded" wars under GWB but the graph obviously doesn't include those years.

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