claim: the president's budget "would take ... non-defense spending to its lowest level ... as a percentage of the economy since jfk."
author: barack obama
evidence_1: jul 22, 2010 ... this morning, president obama signed the improper payments elimination and  recovery act, a bill – passed unanimously by both the house ... our budget  would take non-security defense -- or non-defense spending to its lowest level  since jfk -- lowest level as a percentage of the economy since jfk.
evidence_2: jul 6, 2011 ... economy ... total u.s. defense spending (in inflation-adjusted dollars) has  increased so much over the past decade that it has reached levels not seen since  world ... and eisenhower's vice president, cut the budget by 29 percent as he ...  as the high-low mix, meaning that the services would diversify their ...
evidence_3: their objective research ... that does not mean, however, that the past has  nothing to teach us. ... each presidential administration since eisenhower. ...  economy were eisenhower (at 0.4 percent) and bill clinton (a surplus at 0.1  percent). .... defense spending naturally fell dramatically in the aftermath of the  korean war.
evidence_4: this article discusses the domestic policy of the ronald reagan administration  from 1981 to 1989. reagan's policies stressed conservative economic values,  starting with his .... tax breaks and increased military spending created a larger  budget deficit, ... speaking of reagan himself, donald regan, the president's  former ...
evidence_5: the best way to measure debt by president is with accumulated budget ... 5  presidents and their debt ... you can also compare the debt as a percent of  economic output. ... each year's deficit takes into account budgeted spending and  anticipated ... obama's budget increased defense spending to between $700  billion and ...