edthecynic
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The same posters post this crap and after it is debunked they slink off to another thread and post it again. Bush signed the budget resolutions for nearly all of the FY 2009 spending, Obama spent as little as 140 billion in FY 2009.Budgets run on a fiscal year that starts in the year prior to the year the budget is dated. the '2009' budget therefore started in October of 2008.
Unfortunately for your attempt to deflect blame from your messiah, the so-called "stimulus" package Congress passed and Obama signed into law replaced whatever budget Congress passed in 2008. The stimulus went into effect towards the end of February 2009.
agree
do not forget that last 50% of tarp BHO got (close to 300 billion) that was never to be used
also GWB did not sign the budget for 2009, BHO did with added monies to GWB base-line
Imagine if GWB did the same in 2001?
FactCheck.org : Obama?s Spending: ?Inferno? or Not?
How Much Did Obama Add?
But its also true that Obama signed a number of appropriations bills, plus other legislation and executive orders, that raised spending for the remainder of fiscal 2009 even above the path set by Bush. By our calculations, Obama can be fairly assigned responsibility for a maximum of $203 billion in additional spending for that year.
It can be argued that the total should be lower. Economist Daniel J. Mitchell of the libertarian CATO Institute who once served on the Republican staff of the Senate Finance Committee has put the figure at $140 billion.