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Outside defence and homeland security, 141 programmes are being cut.

The bill allowed for a growth rate of only 1% in discretionary spending outside defence and homeland security, the lowest figure in almost ten years.In this section Who needs a bad teacher when you can get a worse judge?

Not only are his spending cuts selective; his concern for tax cuts once again trumps any fealty to budget discipline.The squeeze on domestic appropriations outside defence is tough, unrealistically so.

By keeping overall government spending outside defence and homeland security to a 2% rise next year (compared with a recent annual average of more than 7%), Mr Bush is proposing a dramatic shift in America's spending priorities.And it is brazen.

But the real point is that even if Mr Bush was more savage, it would barely change the long-term fiscal picture: domestic discretionary spending outside defence makes up less than 20% of federal spending.Real restraint means tackling the "mandatory" spending programmes, from farm subsidies to Medicare, whose cost rises automatically from year to year.

Discretionary spending outside defence (where Mr Bush wants to be tough) rose by 17% last year and this year, so far, is going up at a 9% rate.With both chambers narrowly divided, and elections close, Congress is in the mood to spend and there is little to stop it.

A suicide bomber last struck just over two months ago, killing nine Afghan civilians outside the defence ministry during a visit by the US defence secretary, Chuck Hagel.

The Fund is harnessing the best ideas from inside and outside of Defence through activities such as themed competitions and the Open Call for Innovation, delivered using the Defence and Security Accelerator," said Harriett Baldwin, responding to the parliamentary question.

Some of the world's biggest corporations (outside the defence sector) appear to agree.

In October, orders for capital goods outside the defence industry (and excluding aircraft again) rose by 5.5%.

He called for a protest outside the defence ministry in Kiev: "If many-star generals abandoned [the battalion], I believe the people of Ukraine will not".