Chart Of The Week? Absolutely!

We are always hearing the left moaning and groaning that if only we would cut the Defense budget, we would have all the money needed to fund the Utopian society they fantasize about.

Of course, reasonable people understand that isn’t possible. There would be no country left to fret over once our enemies saw how defenseless we were and besides, social spending has outpaced defense spending since 1976 and we now have more citizens reliant on government for their sustenance than ever before.

Visual proof is provided by the Heritage Foundation in this post, where they state:

Providing for the defense of the United States is Congress’ constitutional obligation. Lawmakers should recognize defense is a necessity, if not the federal government’s most important responsibility.

In recent years, however, defense spending has continued to decline as entitlement spending increased. Priorities are being misplaced as the gap between entitlement spending and defense spending continues to widen.

As you peruse the following graph, keep in mind the administrations involved in the years indicated, as well as who controlled Congress.

Unsustainable Spending

Notice how current defense spending has only recently climbed to meet the low figure reached during the Carter years. Also, how defense spending during the Clintoon years reached the lowest levels in modern history, while during the same administration social spending climbed as dramatically as defense spending declined, until the last few years of his second term when the GOP welfare reform plan kicked in.

This graph is very revealing, but once again only to reasonable people, those on the left will never be convinced of the truth on what spending is bankrupting the country. This information is invaluable for educating those who actually are interested in the truth, and is a useful clue-bat to smack the lefties upside their pointy heads.