Mark Kennedy: “I would add that a big part of the difference which would make that chart look radically different is we have not felt…”

“I would add that a big part of the difference which would make that chart look radically different is we have not felt that defense spending is discretionary spending, and all of that and more of the decreases were done on the back of reducing our preparedness to respond to emergencies. If we took defense spending, left it out of that chart, we would see, I am sure, during the Democrat-controlled periods, a fairly significant increase in the discretionary period spending. A big part of the spending that we have had to do in the last several years in response to tragedies that this country has suffered has been to rebuild our military capabilities, prepare our homeland for defense against terrorist attacks. So I think if we smoothed out that, we would see a story that is very consistent with what I put forth, that we need to control spending. We need to do it in a way that we are not doing it on the backs of the security of the American public.”