Who Is The Smallest Government Spender Since Eisenhower?

[courseofhistory]

I don't see anyone addressing the actual information in the posts, just the usual bits of junk when people can't debate or discuss things. Are you critics saying the data is incorrect? What exactly? Is there a link to something somewhere that says something different with different data and figures? Otherwise, this looks pretty compelling and all the cutsie posts are just attempts to not have to discuss apparently.

It's already been addressed in numerous threads.

So that makes it okay for someone new like me to think republicans are lame and can't discuss something intelligently. I haven't seen numerous threads on the subject.

So, I will have to think the information is correct if no one wants to discuss it and link to something contradicting the OP.

 

[Papageorgio]

I don't see anyone addressing the actual information in the posts, just the usual bits of junk when people can't debate or discuss things. Are you critics saying the data is incorrect? What exactly? Is there a link to something somewhere that says something different with different data and figures? Otherwise, this looks pretty compelling and all the cutsie posts are just attempts to not have to discuss apparently.

It's already been addressed in numerous threads.

So that makes it okay for someone new like me to think republicans are lame and can't discuss something intelligently. I haven't seen numerous threads on the subject.

So, I will have to think the information is correct if no one wants to discuss it and link to something contradicting the OP.

It wouldn't change your vote, would it?

 

[Two Thumbs]

So if obama gets re-elected, the debt that will explode under him will still be Bushs fault.

Right







fucken a. The fool dumped $1.4 TRILLION in his first year just in stimulus money.

 

[courseofhistory]

It's already been addressed in numerous threads.

So that makes it okay for someone new like me to think republicans are lame and can't discuss something intelligently. I haven't seen numerous threads on the subject.

So, I will have to think the information is correct if no one wants to discuss it and link to something contradicting the OP.

It wouldn't change your vote, would it?

I know I won't vote for Romney but I'm not sure who I will vote FOR. I'm considering Obama after not voting for him in 2008 but I haven't decided for sure.

Besides, why wouldn't people from all parties want to know the truth? Would it ruin their narrative?

 

[Douger]

LIES ! It was Bill Clinton !
He was too cheap to pay for a dress to be dry cleaned.

 

[The Infidel]

So that makes it okay for someone new like me to think republicans are lame and can't discuss something intelligently. I haven't seen numerous threads on the subject.

So, I will have to think the information is correct if no one wants to discuss it and link to something contradicting the OP.

It wouldn't change your vote, would it?

I know I won't vote for Romney but I'm not sure who I will vote FOR. I'm considering Obama after not voting for him in 2008 but I haven't decided for sure.

Besides, why wouldn't people from all parties want to know the truth? Would it ruin their narrative?

If there was just ONE instance where I had seen a progressive, liberal, or heck...even a Democrat change their mind on something ideological, then I might post a link.

There is a search feature, and if you "really" wanted to know the truth... wouldn't you go look it up?

Lilo is not an honest broker in my humble opinion, and thats the reason for the ridicule... I would rather debate a billy goat than debate Lilo... emoticons holding poop signs are more fun

 

[LoneLaugher]

B]Who Is The Smallest Government Spender Since Eisenhower?
Would You Believe It's Barack Obama?[/B]
It might have something to do with the first year of the Obama presidency where the federal budget increased a whopping 17.9% —going from $2.98 trillion to $3.52 trillion. I’ll bet you think that this is the result of the Obama sponsored stimulus plan that is so frequently vilified by the conservatives…but you would be wrong.
The first year of any incoming president term is saddled—for better or for worse—with the budget set by the president whom immediately precedes the new occupant of the White House. Indeed, not only was the 2009 budget the property of George W. Bush—and passed by the 2008 Congress—it was in effect four months before Barack Obama took the oath of office

So, how do the actual Obama annual budgets look?
Courtesy of Marketwatch-
In fiscal 2010 (the first Obama budget) spending fell 1.8% to $3.46 trillion.
In fiscal 2011, spending rose 4.3% to $3.60 trillion.
In fiscal 2012, spending is set to rise 0.7% to $3.63 trillion, according to the Congressional Budget Office’s estimate of the budget that was agreed to last August.
Finally in fiscal 2013 — the final budget of Obama’s term — spending is scheduled to fall 1.3% to $3.58 trillion. Read the CBO’s latest budget outlook.
Who Is The Smallest Government Spender Since Eisenhower? Would You Believe It's Barack Obama? - Forbes

The 'Obama spending binge': Fact or fiction?
A contrarian analysis argues that President Obama is a model of fiscal restraint, not the spendthrift Republicans claim.
MarketWatch: The "Obama spending binge" never really happened. Federal spending jumped by 17.9 percent in the 2009 fiscal year — the last budget approved by George W. Bush — but fell by 1.8 percent under Obama's first budget, rose by 4.3 percent and 0.7 percent in his next two years, and is scheduled to fall again, by 1.3 percent, in fiscal 2013. That, says Nutting, is "the slowest pace since Dwight Eisenhower brought the Korean War to an end...." Is he right?
The Obama binge is pure fiction: The "big surge in federal spending" started before Obama stepped into the Oval Office, says blogger Meteor Blades at Daily Kos. Obama did add $140 billion in stimulus spending that year, but over the four years that Obama actively shaped the budget, spending is on track to go from $3.52 trillion to $3.58 trillion. Adjusting for inflation, that amounts to an average 1.4 percent annual decrease. That should burst the GOP "propaganda balloon."
"An Obama spending spree? Hardly"

The 'Obama spending binge': Fact or fiction? - The Week

Check out the replies to the article at he link. The author defends his data.

Facts are fun.