Dick Tuck
Board Troll
- Aug 29, 2009
- 8,511
- 505
- 48
Another right wing lie debunked.
Obama spending binge never happened
Commentary: Government outlays rising at slowest pace since 1950s
Obama spending binge never happened
Commentary: Government outlays rising at slowest pace since 1950s
Of all the falsehoods told about President Barack Obama, the biggest whopper is the one about his reckless spending spree.
As would-be president Mitt Romney tells it: “I will lead us out of this debt and spending inferno.”
Almost everyone believes that Obama has presided over a massive increase in federal spending, an “inferno” of spending that threatens our jobs, our businesses and our children’s future. Even Democrats seem to think it’s true.
But it didn’t happen. Although there was a big stimulus bill under Obama, federal spending is rising at the slowest pace since Dwight Eisenhower brought the Korean War to an end in the 1950s.