Why didn't we hear about the deficit during the Bush administration?

[beowolfe]

Obama campaigned on getting rid of wasteful spending.

Then he turned around and signed a nearly $1 trillion un-stimulating succubus package and an omnibus bill with 1,500 pet pork projects in it.

....Pants on fire.....

Actually, it was $800 odd billion for the stimulus. But don't let a little thing like 'facts' get in the way of a good rant. So, proceed.

 

[elvis]

As I noted, the graph is from the left of center Washington Post.

The link would have provided you with another aid too...

As I asked, where's the 6 trillion dollars in that graph?

The Bush admin added 6 trillion dollars onto our national debt. Your graph does not show 6 trillion dollars. Therefore it's a false graph.

09/30/2009 11,909,829,003,511.75
09/30/2008 10,024,724,896,912.49
09/30/2007 9,007,653,372,262.48
09/30/2006 8,506,973,899,215.23
09/30/2005 7,932,709,661,723.50
09/30/2004 7,379,052,696,330.32
09/30/2003 6,783,231,062,743.62
09/30/2002 6,228,235,965,597.16
09/30/2001 5,807,463,412,200.06
09/30/2000 5,674,178,209,886.86

Government - Historical Debt Outstanding - Annual 2000 - 2009

and now your ossiah is going to double that.

 

[Queen]

Bush's tax cuts for the rich cost us almost a trillion dollars of deficit spending. Bush never paid for those tax cuts.

You think a trillion dollars is puny?

You think it's cryasses bitching and moaning about deficit spending?

What happened to fiscally responsible Republicans?

That's the myth that's been busted. There's been no such Republicans since the Reagan admin.

what about his tax cuts for the middle class and poor? i'm not rich and they saved me $2400 last year.

seriously, i've tried to tell uber libs this and they can't accept it. at the time i was in school and not making a lot of money, yet i got the tax cuts (actually rebate). the old guy next to me on a fixed income, partial supp income, got the tax cuts, and on and on.....ironically the old guy, a repub, thought it was stupid as since he was single, what the darn hell is $600 bucks going to for him....

the fact is, the tax cut/rebate he gave both times put money into mostly the lower to middle class folks. if you made over a certain amount, you didn't get the bush rebate.

most libs accept this, but the uber left continues in denial

A rebate is a rebate. Everybody got one.

A tax cut is a tax cut. The millionaires got one.

 

[Oddball]

Obama campaigned on getting rid of wasteful spending.

Then he turned around and signed a nearly $1 trillion un-stimulating succubus package and an omnibus bill with 1,500 pet pork projects in it.

....Pants on fire.....

Actually, it was $800 odd billion for the stimulus. But don't let a little thing like 'facts' get in the way of a good rant. So, proceed.

Didn't figure in the interest that'll be due on it, did you?

 

[elvis]

what about his tax cuts for the middle class and poor? i'm not rich and they saved me $2400 last year.

seriously, i've tried to tell uber libs this and they can't accept it. at the time i was in school and not making a lot of money, yet i got the tax cuts (actually rebate). the old guy next to me on a fixed income, partial supp income, got the tax cuts, and on and on.....ironically the old guy, a repub, thought it was stupid as since he was single, what the darn hell is $600 bucks going to for him....

the fact is, the tax cut/rebate he gave both times put money into mostly the lower to middle class folks. if you made over a certain amount, you didn't get the bush rebate.

most libs accept this, but the uber left continues in denial

A rebate is a rebate. Everybody got one.

A tax cut is a tax cut. The millionaires got one.

I'm not a millionaire, and I got a tax cut. figure that out.

 

[Queen]

As I noted, the graph is from the left of center Washington Post.

The link would have provided you with another aid too...

As I asked, where's the 6 trillion dollars in that graph?

The Bush admin added 6 trillion dollars onto our national debt. Your graph does not show 6 trillion dollars. Therefore it's a false graph.

09/30/2009 11,909,829,003,511.75
09/30/2008 10,024,724,896,912.49
09/30/2007 9,007,653,372,262.48
09/30/2006 8,506,973,899,215.23
09/30/2005 7,932,709,661,723.50
09/30/2004 7,379,052,696,330.32
09/30/2003 6,783,231,062,743.62
09/30/2002 6,228,235,965,597.16
09/30/2001 5,807,463,412,200.06
09/30/2000 5,674,178,209,886.86

Government - Historical Debt Outstanding - Annual 2000 - 2009

and now your ossiah is going to double that.

You have a crystal ball?

Too bad you didn't have that back in 2004, you could have told your fellow righties not to vote for the debt doubler.

 

[Ragnar]

Why didn't we hear about the deficit during the Bush

Which rock were you living under?

Point me in the direction of all those tea baggers who were out there screaming about the Bush deficit spending.

Why do you think Bush's poll numbers were in the 30's, and bad through most of his second term given the fact that we are pretty much a 50/50 nation. I'll help, it's because right of center people were angry about Bush's spending.

 

[elvis]

As I asked, where's the 6 trillion dollars in that graph?

The Bush admin added 6 trillion dollars onto our national debt. Your graph does not show 6 trillion dollars. Therefore it's a false graph.

09/30/2009 11,909,829,003,511.75
09/30/2008 10,024,724,896,912.49
09/30/2007 9,007,653,372,262.48
09/30/2006 8,506,973,899,215.23
09/30/2005 7,932,709,661,723.50
09/30/2004 7,379,052,696,330.32
09/30/2003 6,783,231,062,743.62
09/30/2002 6,228,235,965,597.16
09/30/2001 5,807,463,412,200.06
09/30/2000 5,674,178,209,886.86

Government - Historical Debt Outstanding - Annual 2000 - 2009

and now your ossiah is going to double that.

You have a crystal ball?

Too bad you didn't have that back in 2004, you could have told your fellow righties not to vote for the debt doubler.

and yet you voted for a new "debt doubler".

 

[Ragnar]

Also, in case this got lost in the shuffle...

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

Bush Deficit vs. Obama Deficit in Pictures | The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.

 

[beowolfe]

Why didn't we hear about the deficit during the Bush administration?

Oh, but we did, ad nauseum.... Every time lib cryasses bitched and moaned about "tax cuts for the rich".

Nevermind that the tax cuts were pretty puny in the grand scheme of things and that the debt had been on track to explode starting in 2003, for about 20 years.

Bush's tax cuts for the rich cost us almost a trillion dollars of deficit spending. Bush never paid for those tax cuts.

You think a trillion dollars is puny?

You think it's cryasses bitching and moaning about deficit spending?

What happened to fiscally responsible Republicans?

That's the myth that's been busted. There's been no such Republicans since the Reagan admin.

Whoa!!! Wait a minute. It was the Reagan administration that put us on this deficit tract. Reagan? A fiscal conservative?? No frigging way. The deficit numbers say he was a big goverment fiscal liberal.

 

[Queen]

Obama campaigned on getting rid of wasteful spending.

Then he turned around and signed a nearly $1 trillion un-stimulating succubus package and an omnibus bill with 1,500 pet pork projects in it.

....Pants on fire.....

And if he didn't the right would be blaming the GREAT DEPRESSION on him.

 

[Oddball]

Why didn't we hear about the deficit during the Bush administration?

When not waving the flag, Rush and Hannity bemoaned it quite often. Beck mocked and chided Shrub and the congress constantly. Guys like Boortz and Jason Lewis were going absolutely nuts. Then, there were the dems and their compliant media toadies, who pissed and moaned about it in conjunction with the tax cuts for those eeeeeevil "wealthy" people.

Whoever didn't hear about deficits exploding during Chimpy McShrub's eight years had to have been living on a deserted island, with Gilligan and the gang.

 

[beowolfe]

Also, in case this got lost in the shuffle...

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

Bush Deficit vs. Obama Deficit in Pictures | The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.

And to prove your point, you direct us to a blog showing numbers that don't include the Iraq and Afghanistan wars!! Touche'

 

[elvis]

Why didn't we hear about the deficit during the Bush administration?

When not waving the flag, Rush and Hannity bemoaned it quite often. Beck mocked and chided Shrub and the congress constantly. Guys like Boortz and Jason Lewis were going absolutely nuts. Then there were the dems and their media toadies who pissed and moaned about it in conjunction with the tax cuts for those eeeeeevil "wealthy" people.

Whoever didn't hear about deficits exploding during Chimpy McShrub's eight years had to have been living on a deserted island, with Gilligan and the gang.

i have only seen Becks show twice (back when it was on cnn, in fact) and I heard him talk about how out of control Bush's spending was.

 

[Oddball]

Obama campaigned on getting rid of wasteful spending.

Then he turned around and signed a nearly $1 trillion un-stimulating succubus package and an omnibus bill with 1,500 pet pork projects in it.

....Pants on fire.....

And if he didn't the right would be blaming the GREAT DEPRESSION on him.

Bullshit.

Besides that, your thread premise has more holes in it than Nancy Pelosi's story about the CIA.

 

[Ragnar]

Oh, but we did, ad nauseum.... Every time lib cryasses bitched and moaned about "tax cuts for the rich".

Nevermind that the tax cuts were pretty puny in the grand scheme of things and that the debt had been on track to explode starting in 2003, for about 20 years.

Bush's tax cuts for the rich cost us almost a trillion dollars of deficit spending. Bush never paid for those tax cuts.

You think a trillion dollars is puny?

You think it's cryasses bitching and moaning about deficit spending?

What happened to fiscally responsible Republicans?

That's the myth that's been busted. There's been no such Republicans since the Reagan admin.

Whoa!!! Wait a minute. It was the Reagan administration that put us on this deficit tract. Reagan? A fiscal conservative?? No frigging way. The deficit numbers say he was a big goverment fiscal liberal.

Well if he didn't there would have been the GREAT DEPRESSION of the 80's. Oh wait, no we would not have. (my bad, what a stupid argument, sorry)

 

[Modbert]

i have only seen Becks show twice (back when it was on cnn, in fact) and I heard him talk about how out of control Bush's spending was.

Glenn Beck had a brain transfer when he went over to Fox.

 

[Ragnar]

Also, in case this got lost in the shuffle...

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

Bush Deficit vs. Obama Deficit in Pictures | The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.

And to prove your point, you direct us to a blog showing numbers that don't include the Iraq and Afghanistan wars!! Touche'

The cost of the wars were included and the numbers are from the Wachington Post.

 

[elvis]

i have only seen Becks show twice (back when it was on cnn, in fact) and I heard him talk about how out of control Bush's spending was.

Glenn Beck had a brain transfer when he went over to Fox.

could be. now I don't get any of the cable news channels. boo hoo.

 

[Queen]

what about his tax cuts for the middle class and poor? i'm not rich and they saved me $2400 last year.

I didn't get a tax cut. What was yours in, capital gains?

nope. I have very little stock. what did you do? have h&r block do your taxes?

No, I didn't get a tax cut. You're not thinking the tax rebates are the same as tax cuts like Yurt thinks are you?

Only the richest of the rich got those Bush tax cuts.