costello exposes waynes spin , page-18

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    Sorry, I'm neither a politician nor an economist. Usually the word "spent" is in the past tense, so I assumed that it referred to funds actually spent. Agree that budgets are forward looking, but normally funds are allocated for future spending.

    Excerpt from your article link:

    "Between 2000 and 2008, the Howard government on average spent 24.1 per cent of Australia's GDP."
 
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