froggy
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That chart is dishonest ... the 2009 budget is Bush's.
No, you are dishonest. The 2009 budget was not passed during Bush's administration nor was it signed off by him. Obama signed it and he didn't have to. He had the political capital and an over 80% approval rating from the American people that he could have rejected that budget and told Congress to go back to the drawing board. Instead he wholeheartedly embraced a $1.75 trillion deficit for 2009.
The president blamed the nation's economic travails on the administration that preceded him and on a nation that lost its bearings. His budget plan projects a federal deficit of $1.75 trillion for 2009, or 12.3% of the gross domestic product, a level not seen since 1942 as the U.S. plunged into World War II.
Wall Street Journal
But would it have been if he could have?