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Why should we take this seriously when the post seems to use "debt" and "deficit" interchangeably?
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Do you know how ridiculous you sound defending Obama on runaway spending, BRC? Do you really believe that Obama will make it through his term without eclipsing the debt racked up by either Reagan or Bush by huge margins?
If you feel strongly about admitting open gays into the military or about special benefits for unions or about expanded government control over banks and auto companies, then by all means pimp your guy, but don't make a fool of yourself by trying to defend Obama's spending record.
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Without doing any checking of my own (i.e. using your numbers), here are the average annual deficits for Reagan, Bush, and Obama:
Reagan - $175 billion/yr Bush - $616 billion/yr Obama - $1.15 trillion/yr Even if we give Obama every benefit of the doubt and assign that $500 billion you were talking about to Bush, the numbers are Reagan - $175 billion/yr Bush - $654 billion/yr Obama - $929 billion/yr In other words, under both scenarios, Obama is worse than Reagan and Bush COMBINED. And he's not going to have anyone else to blame for any part of year 2 so it's going to get worse for Obama, not better.
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This also only addresses money spent, not obligations. You can't just compare where the numbers were when one president took office versus when another left office versus the numbers right this minute.
If my wife is in charge of our family's finances until the end of January, she could charge up $10,000 on the credit card this weekend. Then, when we get the bill in February, she could point to the bill when she was in charge versus the bill when I was in charge to make it seem like I was the one who couldn't manage a budget. It would be about as honest as these numbers.
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My point is historical context is needed by some here. And FTR, I think we should balance the budget and not spend one dime more than we take in. And that the budget should be balanced by taking on entitlements. |
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Thats right. He's spending less, he's not raising taxes like Reagan and his top tax rate he wants to have is 34%. Reagans was what 70%? Again, context.
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Reagan CUT top tax rates by 60%. Obama wants to RAISE top tax rates by almost 12% (to 39.1% not 35%).
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Ronald Reagan and GWB both had years where Dems controlled House, Senate, or Both.
Why do people continue to ascribe debt created to solely the party in the WH? Blame the party that created the plan as well. Be honest
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So in 8 years Bush spent 5 trillion over what was taken in...In 1 year Obama over spent by 1 trillion. SO if my math is correct in 7 more years ObaMA will be 8 Trillion over..OK thanks for playing..
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