re: #402 BishopX

you’re just plain wrong about this. The US debt (total money owed) is currently around 14 trillion. The deficit (the difference between budgeted spending and projected income) was 1.9 trillion in FY09 and 1.7 trillion in FY10.

The US has been running a deficit of approx. 500 billion since FY03, so if you compare Obama’s deficit to Bush’s average deficit (ignoring the fact that Bush ran a 1 trillion deficit in FY08) then Obama would have tripled the deficit.

But under no circumstances did Obama quadruple the debt. That’s pure wingnut talk.

And - Obama reduced the deficit in his first budget.

And - of the last 6 Presidents all the Democrats out perform Republicans in debt growth slowing/reduction haste.