Government Spending: The USA

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This paper examines government spending during two ten-year periods when the United States was not engaged in active hostilities. This examination reveals a dramatic drop in domestic spending during the second ten year period. According to the paper, during the New Deal in the nineteen-thirties, American government spending was focused inward on domestic programs and creating jobs.

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"Between 1929 and 1939, domestic spending steadily increased and defense spending steadily declined. During the Cold War, government spending began to be focused outward more because of the perceived/real threat of Soviet expansion. Between 1953 and 1963, many domestic spending programs that had been put on the back burner or dropped with the onset of World War II could have been brought to the forefront by the Eisenhower Administration, but weren't. "

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