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For that certain someone who keeps harping on Biden's record-breaking defense spending, here's a chart of defense spending as a percentage of GDP, the most statistically accurate measure of comparison between presidents.

Reagan's defense spending peaked at 5.7% of GDP during the Cold War.

Biden's projected 2024 defense spending is 2.7% of GDP.

So Biden's defense spending is less than half of what Reagan was spending as measured by percentage of GDP and near an all-time low.

During the Vietnam War, defense spending peaked at 8.6% of GDP.

During the Korean War, defense spending peaked at 11.3% of GDP.

So can we put a sock in this nonsense, please?

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Spinners gonna spin.

Karl Rove, Trump, all the same.

Here's to Biden's huge defense spending, and here's to the Left shutting up about it and making excuses for it.

Reagan-Biden 2024

"It's how the sausage is made"......

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