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As a share of the budget, defence spending has shrunk since 2001.
Defence officials say they are playing catch-up with China's military budget, which has multiplied 30 times over the past decade, while Japan's spending has shrunk.
Although government spending has shrunk in recent years, the Swedish state is still large (51% of GDP last year), and it spends much more than Anglo-Saxon countries do on everything from early-childhood education to job search and training.
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This has had a "corrosive impact on the UK economy", the report concludes, as household spending power has shrunk.
A year later, a memo arrives saying that you're haemorrhaging support because – lo and behold – people have noticed that your government's spending budget has shrunk in the past 12 months.
A year later, a memo arrives saying that you're hemorrhaging support because lo and behold people have noticed that your government's spending budget has shrunk in the past 12 months.
Today, spending on food has shrunk to a seventh of income, census officials say, while spending on housing, utilities and work expenses has expanded.
The rancher's share of each dollar consumers spend on beef, meanwhile, has shrunk from 60 cents to 40 cents, according to the ranchers.
Economists say that since the1960s in the U.S., public infrastructure spending as a share of GDP has shrunk to about half the European level.
There's some logic to this: job tenure has shrunk, so why spend time and money training someone who may soon go to work for your competitor?
Today is his last day in the business; from here on, he will find that, to his loved ones, as to the unloved hordes who constitute the rest of society, he has shrunk to a spent force.
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