re: #430 BryanS

Well, perhaps the $1 trillion in new spending on top of the old budget, passed by the Dems and Obama AFTER he was sworn in, had something to do with the $1.4 trillion debt? I’m not saying it was all his fault, but it’s silly to claim he had nothing to do with it when he sheparded $1trillion in additional spending before the end of “Bush’s” last fiscal year.

see………..

The 2009 Budget Deficit
How did we get here?
epi.org
By John Irons, Kathryn Edwards, and Anna Turner

Contrary to popular assumption, stimulus spending under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act has been a very small factor in the expansion of the federal budget deficit in 2009. Many policies that pre-date the Obama Administration, including Bush-era spending on the wars in Iran and Afghanistan, are key factors in the growing deficit.

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