A more accurate description would have been 3 years of government spending in 1 graph. We have the US budget for each of those 50 years, then why throw out 47 data points and keep arbitrary 3?
This graph with it's hand picked years and tweens between the dates seems to show a monotonically decreasing defense spending which is a very wrong way to think about it. We have had a lull in defense spending after the end of the Cold War, but the last 10 years have seen an increase of more than 50% in dollar values of the defense budget.
I don't want to attribute malice to the creator of the graph for their selection (and exclusion) of the data points, but I feel being manipulated.
This graph with it's hand picked years and tweens between the dates seems to show a monotonically decreasing defense spending which is a very wrong way to think about it. We have had a lull in defense spending after the end of the Cold War, but the last 10 years have seen an increase of more than 50% in dollar values of the defense budget.
I don't want to attribute malice to the creator of the graph for their selection (and exclusion) of the data points, but I feel being manipulated.