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> For another, the final Federal deficit pre-debt crisis in 2007 was a mere $158B and had been steadily trending downward since the height of the previous recession five years earlier. Now we're four years past the peak of the last recession and deficits are routinely $1T+.

I'm tired of these freaking lies. Debt per GDP shot way up under Bush and didn't stop shooting up at basically the same slope until after 2009. The intellectual dishonesty on the right is absolutely amazing.

http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/federal_debt_chart.html

> Even Bush took his second term pledge to halve the deficit seriously.

No he didn't.

http://www.usgovernmentdebt.us/us_deficit

Notice any trends?

Really, why the unfounded Obama hate?



Where does the name "Obama" appear in my comment? I certainly don't hate the president, but I wish he would take a few pages from Bill Clinton's playbook. There's a guy who made divided government work.


>There's a guy who made divided government work.

There's a guy who signed DOMA, CALEA, the NET Act, the DMCA, negotiated the WIPO treaties that require other countries to pass DMCA-like laws, etc.

He ends up looking like a great president because of the inevitable comparison to his successor, but he was most certainly not infallible.




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