President Obama: The Biggest Government Spender In World History

[rdean]

good op/ed piece on Obama's spending. Here are some highlights, but much more in the piece.

President Obama: The Biggest Government Spender In World History - Forbes

A good deal of the spending was to pay for things that Bush put on the nation's tab..like Afghanistan and Iraq.

Should Obama have cancelled those debts in the name of Austerity?

Are you suggesting that Obama is now paying for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq?

Are you suggesting he isn't?

 

[Peach]

President Obama: The Biggest Government Spender In World History

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9/11, Katrina*, and the actual delayed reaction to terror did cost a bundle. IRAQ MAY rank as the largest unnecessary expense in US history, however.

*Katrina: the tired old lines about "Presidents can't control Cat. 5 hurricanes" doesn't cut it;
Bush cut the SELA budget for the twenty year ongoing restoration project, Congress upped his paltry allocation a bit, but the ACE requests for 2002-2005 were nowhere near what was needed. And she hit New Orleans as a Cat. 3, we will never know if the levees might have held had the ACE budget been funded as requested. We do know Bush & Co. saved 250+ million, the destruction of N.O. COST 300 billion, and still rising. SELA is a FEDERAL project so blaming the city and state is no more than pro Bush II babble.

 

[Too Tall]

A good deal of the spending was to pay for things that Bush put on the nation's tab..like Afghanistan and Iraq.

Should Obama have cancelled those debts in the name of Austerity?

Are you suggesting that Obama is now paying for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq?

Are you suggesting he isn't?

Yes, but it is more than a suggestion. The two wars were paid for with supplemental budgets every year that Bush was in office.

 

[Flaylo]

Okay..peeps..

What exactly did Obama iniate and "spend" all this money on?

The only thing I can come up with is the stimulus package. Which was about 700 billion or so. 350 billion which came in the form of tax breaks for employees and small businesses. So..aren't conservatives now saying that tax breaks..or tax reduction is spending?

But heck..list it out.

Aside from the stimulus..which I concede here..

What spending did Obama initiate?

Bump, no one has provide a list and you want to know why? They keep posting vgaues shit like "Obama's policies" but never show it. Politicians have skillfully mastered the art of convincing people to believe lies about shit they've proven, just make it sound good enough and believeable. Still, no rightwing dipshit has stepped up to list all of these things Obama has spent crazy on.

 

[Flaylo]

The bottom line is we are broke and Obama has increased tghe debit more than anyone else. As Thruman said the buck stops here. It doesn't stop with past presidents, it is Obamas to own, he did it it is his. This guy can't even take credit for what he does.

You fucking dumbass, he hasn't spent more than everyone else, I already posted why.