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JRK, one of the quotes linked me to the Obama.gov figures, which Trajan used. He's going the safe route, which cannot be disputed by Obama's supporters, even if the numbers are potentially not as correct as they could be or even cooked to make Obama look good. That's what I linked to earlier to compute the differences in terms of annual spending differences.noooooo, he hasn't....i proved such but YOU and others like you refuse to make yourselves knowledgeable.Still, the dipshit in office now has added more than any other pres. in history. It does not matter what GWB did or did not do, this is all dipshits in office now problem.
per our Treasury, so far under Obama's fiscal reign, oct 1, 2009(his first fiscal budget) through july 21, 2011,(most recent national debt numbers) $2.4 trillion has been added to the national debt.
only in your dreams is $2.4 trillion MORE than $6.1 trillion
obama is ''trending'' at a rate that will eventually outdo the debt added under president bush, but by NO WAY does it beat the national debt added under pres. bush, not by a long shot, at least not yet!
Why do you keep doing this?
UPDATE: This graph is now over one year old. For up to date information see this post: Budget 2011: Past Deficits vs. Obama’s Deficits in Pictures
President Barack Obama has repeatedly claimed that his budget would cut the deficit by half by the end of his term. But as Heritage analyst Brian Riedl has pointed out, given that Obama has already helped quadruple the deficit with his stimulus package, pledging to halve it by 2013 is hardly ambitious. The Washington Post has a great graphic which helps put President Obama’s budget deficits in context of President Bush’s.
What’s driving Obama’s unprecedented massive deficits? Spending. Riedl details:
President Bush expanded the federal budget by a historic $700 billion through 2008. President Obama would add another $1 trillion.
President Bush began a string of expensive finan*cial bailouts. President Obama is accelerating that course.
President Bush created a Medicare drug entitle*ment that will cost an estimated $800 billion in its first decade. President Obama has proposed a $634 billion down payment on a new govern*ment health care fund.
President Bush increased federal education spending 58 percent faster than inflation. Presi*dent Obama would double it.
President Bush became the first President to spend 3 percent of GDP on federal antipoverty programs. President Obama has already in*creased this spending by 20 percent.
President Bush tilted the income tax burden more toward upper-income taxpayers. President Obama would continue that trend.
President Bush presided over a $2.5 trillion increase in the public debt through 2008. Setting aside 2009 (for which Presidents Bush and Obama share responsibility for an additional $2.6 trillion in public debt), President Obama’s budget would add $4.9 trillion in public debt from the beginning of 2010 through 2016.
UPDATE: Many Obama defenders in the comments are claiming that the numbers above do not include spending on Iraq and Afghanistan during the Bush years. They most certainly do. While Bush did fund the wars through emergency supplementals (not the regular budget process), that spending did not simply vanish. It is included in the numbers above. Also, some Obama defenders are claiming the graphic above represents biased Heritage Foundation numbers. While we stand behind the numbers we put out 100%, the numbers, and the graphic itself, above are from the Washington Post. We originally left out the link to WaPo. It has now been added.
CLARIFICATION: Of course, this Washington Post graphic does not perfectly delineate budget surpluses and deficits by administration. President Bush took office in January 2001, and therefore played a lead role in crafting the FY 2002-2008 budgets. Presidents Bush and Obama share responsibility for the FY 2009 budget deficit that overlaps their administrations, before President Obama assumes full budgetary responsibility beginning in FY 2010. Overall, President Obama’s budget would add twice as much debt as President Bush over the same number of years.
GWB ADDED ABOUT 3 TRILLION, MAYBE LESS, MAYBE MORE
INTEREST ON THE DEBT HE INHERITED FROM OTHERS ADDED THE REST
OBAMA HAS COME CLOSE TO EQUALING THAT IN HIS FIRST 30 MONTHS
Bush Deficit vs. Obama Deficit in Pictures
Trajan the wise was doing his best to have an irrefutable post, as he is very careful with his figures. To err on the side of caution is wise.
My guess is he knows a good CPA and has learned from one of the best not to ever even remotely lie with numbers when figures thrown out to the public are involved.
He's professionally wise.
See what I mean? http://www.usmessageboard.com/3910653-post61.html
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