Well, imagine that…
And, my goodness, imagine this, too…
Imagine all that. President Obama isn’t the “out-of-control tax-and-spend liberal” his opponents claim lie about him being. Not by a long shot.
Now it’s not that we’re arguing any of the above is necessarily worth bragging about one way or another. But they are certainly facts which run counter to the lies being told by the GOP and its propaganda machines in hopes of unseating Obama.
As we’ve noted here many times, there is much to complain about when it comes to the President. Trouble is, his Republican detractors haven’t mentioned, and aren’t campaigning on, virtually any of them, choosing instead to simply make stuff up to fool a gullible, well-propagandized nation rather than run on any real difference in ideologies.
Lame.
And this is not a good thing. It means he is going to use austerity, just like the GOP would use, and it will plunge us into deflation.
When you disingenuouSLY fail to include Obama’s fiscal budget of 2009, you can massage the numbers to say whatever you damn well please. Obama was the one who signed in the fiscal budget of 2009.
REALITY OF DEFICITS:
2005: 318,000,000,000
2006: 248,000,000,000
2007: 161,000,000,000
The Democrats took control of Congress in January 2007, one-third of the way through FY 2007.
2008: 459,000,000,000 (last one Bush signed)
Now we get to the Obama administration.
2009: 1,413,000,000,000
2010: 1,293,000,000,000
2011: 1,300,000,000,000
2012: 1,327,000,000,000
If you either get snookered or are lying about this, then what else can we trust you on?
Michael,
So spending is down and the deficit goes up. What do you suppose is the mystery answer to this paradox?
Quote; “To relate this specifically to the debt-ceiling debate, we’re not raising the debt ceiling because of the new policies passed in the past two years. We’re raising the debt ceiling because of the accumulated effect of policies passed in recent decades, many of them under Republicans. It’s convenient for whichever side isn’t in power, or wasn’t recently in power, to blame the debt ceiling on the other party. But it isn’t true.”
The jump from 2008 to 2009 is due to TARP being off the books and Bush’s Iraq war being off the books. The true Bush ending deficit is 1.2 trillion. Right wing news sources know this but continue to use the Bush lie number as the ending deficit as it makes President Obama look like a big spending.