> 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.
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.
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?