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That's right. The debt is now nearly $5.6 trillion higher than the day he took office.
And how much of that is the two unpaid for wars that was left out of the budget?
How much includes the revenue lost from tax cuts that were never subtracted under Bush.
How much of that is the drugs for votes bill?
How much is because of the tens of thousands of Americans maimed in the Iraqi war of "choice"?
Don't stop there. Keep going. Factories closed. Millions of jobs lost from 2001 to 2008. Jobs moved to China. Billions in subsidies for oil companies.
It adds up. But of course, it's all Obama's fault.
Presidential budgets are completely separate than appropriations, which are how the money is actually spent. Costs of tax cuts in static economic analyses, off-budget defense spending and anything else are all realized and apparent in a year-by-year look at the federal debt.
Obama has added $5.3 Trillion to the federal debt. Obama signed his first appropriation bill in March 2009:
"President Bush did sign some appropriations bills and a continuing resolution to keep the government running into President Obama’s first term, yet a Democrat controlled Congress purposely held off on the big spending portions of the appropriations bills until Obama took office. They did so for the purposes of jacking up spending. President Obama signed the final FY2009 spending bills on March 11, 2009. ...
PolitiFact | Lots of heat (and some light) on Obama's spending
Obama didn't inherit a deficit, he continued and increased spending over and above Bush's overspending.
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