Obama vs. Bush: The Red Ink Showdown
“By the time I took office, we had a one-year deficit of over $1 trillion and projected deficits of $8 trillion over the next decade,” Obama said in his State of the Union speech.
“The Bush administration’s swing from surpluses to deficits added more debt in its eight years than all the previous administrations in the history of our republic combined,” David Axelrod, a senior strategist for Obama, wrote in The Washington Post.
The theme is clear. According to the Obama Administration deficits as far as the eye can see are the fault of one man: George W. Bush. They relentlessly push this message from the Obama White House. Let’s do a little fact checking.
First it is important to understand that an Administration only suggests a budget. Under our form of government, Congress is actually in charge of appropriating money. Hence, you have a mad scramble every two years, when committee assignments are passed out with Members of Congress elbowing each other to get a seat on the aptly named “Committee on Appropriations”.
So when Obama uses speeches to whine about the “fiscal disaster” he inherited from Bush, he should actually be complaining about the Democratic Congress run by Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid that appropriated and adopted the budget during the later years of the Bush term.
As the party that controlled Congress since January 2007, it is the Democrats that have held all the cards in the budget debate. They essentially wrote the budgets for FY 2008, FY 2009, as well as FY 2010 and FY 2011. Oh, and if we need to remind him, Barack Obama served in these Democratic majorities, so he cannot feign ignorance of the process.
George W. Bush’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) during those years were constantly in conflict with the appropriators over spending too much money.
In FY 2009, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid actually bypassed Bush entirely, passing only continuing resolutions to keep government running until Barack Obama could take office. Then once Obama was safely in office they passed a massive omnibus spending bill to complete the FY 2009 budgets.
So what did the deficits look like during the time period Congress was controlled by the Democrats? In the FY 2007 budget, the last of the budgets written by Republicans the deficit was the lowest in the last five years, and it was the fourth straight decline in deficit spending.
Once Democrats in Congress took control, the budgets and deficits exploded.
The budget just unveiled by Obama’s team is so large and so out of control, he should be embarrassed to compare it to any of the Bush budgets.
In a nutshell, the deficit will surge to a record-breaking $1.56 trillion. This tops the last shocking $1.41 trillion in red ink. And as Karl Rove pointed out in the Wall Street Journal, when measured against economic output, Obama looks even worse. “Mr. Bush’s deficits ran an average of 3.2 percent of GDP, slightly above the post-World War Two average of 2.7 percent. Mr. Obama’s plan calls for deficits that will average 4.2 percent over the next decade,” Rove wrote.
The deficit will remain above $1 trillion, even in 2011 when Obama’s so-called “budget freeze” begins. This is because in an Obama freeze spending in a multitude of programs actually goes up.
So the next time you hear the Whiner-in-Chief complain about his predecessor, remember the Congress that appropriated the funds were the Congresses in which he served in the majority.
So who inherited what?
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Just curious, what happened to the court hearing that was to take place on January 26??
Yea, I've been wondering the same thing! Isn't is obvious to
everyone that BO has been put in place by,God knows who,
to ruin our country? This budget just proves it all the more.
George Soros has been the main puppeteer behind this fraud of an American.
Obama was hand-picked by Soros many years ago and was molded and shaped into what he is today.
He is the money behind Obamas education, housing, etc. you name it,. Remember, Obama has
never had a "real" job.
Google George Soros and see what you come up with.
i noticed several what happened to the court case concerning the legality of obama’s presidency but see no answers!!!!!!! if anyone knows the answer please. probably another oboma coverup.
That was dismissed in mid-December, though the January 26th hearing is still running rampant on the internet as still to be held. I went to the attorney's site and checked–she even has copies of all the court documents up. It is obvious now, 2/01, that it never happened. It was definitely dismissed, probably never to return.
i believe everything you say obama has been complaining about everyhting and thats how he got elected
It frightens me the direction our country is going. By the way, what did happen to the court hearing that was to take place on the 26th?
Obviously NOTHING happened to the court hearing. Obama is never going to be "bothered" by something as mundane as THE TRUTH! It is INCONVENIENT. IMPEACH, CONVICT, and IMPRISON – OBAMA, PELOSI, REID! If ANY citizen pulled ONE of the shenanigans these excuses for human beings have pulled, we would have been thrown in jail so fast it would be hard to find our birth certificate! Oops……..did I say BIRTH CERTIFICATE?? He wants US to serve jail time for not purchasing one of his sorry insurance policies and yet HE is illegally HERE, and ILLEGALLY HOLDING OFFICE! IMPEACH, CONVICT, IMPRISON – FOR LIFE! Reid and Pelosi get to go with, because they are drunk on the destruction of lives in the United States. No punishment is too extreme for these scumbags, because nothing is too devastating for them to throw down on us!
you are right i signed the petition i hope we can impeach the bastard.
Absolutely! Rudy, why don't you consider running for office! Out with those bums!
You're nuts.
You cannot impeach a man who is not our president. You have to be a citizen to be president in the US. But he & aunt Ester can & should be arrested & imprisoned for treason. If we had anybody in washington that is supposed to be representing the people that had a spine, we would not be in this mess. I have not talked to anyone that will vote for anyone that is in our government at this time. They had better wake up!!!!
Hawaii isn't America? What is wrong with you people? He got elected, he's our President. Do you idiots really think he would've gotten to even RUN for office if he wasn't a citizen? Is everybody here smarter than the DNC, the RNC, the Supreme Court, the Senate, etc.
To Common Sense: Reasoning with these guys is like talking to a table.
Great article and well-constructed with the facts laid out so even the Libs can refute them!
I just refuted it. Here it is again, for the record:
FDR ran MUCH larger deficits for more than a decade, and the economy grew steadily through the 1930s, 40s, and 50s with little inflation. The only downturn occurred in 1937, when FDR tried to balance the budget.
http://www.ourfuture.org/files/images/Depression-…
http://www.everydaycitizen.com/2009/12/in_the_lon…
Moral of the story: deficits are OK, and sound policy in the short run as a way of dealing with recession.
Yea, and another thing. Please quit showing those pictures of those
terrorists. Don't you know that is just giving them just what they want–
fame.
In checking out the story about a hearing on Obama's hearing, Snopes says the story is false. I was disappointed. I would love to see him impeached but then look who would be our President? Biden is certainly not qualified to be President. If we got rid of him, heaven help us if Pelosi took over. We can't win for losing!!
I agree but if we can impeach Obama, maybe the others will rethink their opinion of the public. While they are doing that we can work on getting rid of them from office. Just let them make one wrong move. But seriously…HOW AND WHEN CAN WE IMPEACH OBAMA????????????????????????????????? I REALLY HOPE THIS CAN BE DONE. I WAS READING THE 4TH AMENDMENT FOR IMPEACHMENT AND BRIBERY IS ON OF THE REASONS TO IMPEACH, EVEN THOUGH THEY HAVE ALL BEEN DOIG THIS FOR DECADES. I dislike Obama so much I want to throw up every time his voice and face is on TV.
Why? What's your problem with him?
Fire the hole dang bunch
OBAMA has to be impeached.
His whold objective is to take this country down.
Who is he? Where did he come from.
What was his quilifacation to run for President.
IMPEACE HIM NOW.
I cannot understand why this Impeach process has not progressed. You hear daily IMPEACH OBAMA ,
Congress, Senate ,and House, get off your duff and do something. Election is coming soon. If nothing is done
by then the voters will put someone in office who will follow up on our requests. Do what the voters want or
find another job.
Because there is no IMPEACHABLE offense. Moron.
I believe Congress has to initiate Articles of Impeachment, but while we are making the attempt, pressure your state legislatures to invoke their powers under the 10th amendment and maybe repeal the 17th. The states used to appoint the Senators giving the states control over the Senate mix. The 17th changed it to popular election and diminished the stats' power
I agree with you where did this so called Preisdent (a fraud) come from?
well he came from HELL and he is the third comming of the Anti Christ.
this is why he gets away with so much. and now the people of this country
are starting to open there eye's. I just hope it is in time to stop him. I feel
bad for the one's who still think he is doing a great job. the stupid one's
that think he is going to pay there house payments and there gas for there
cars. WE NEED TO GET RID OF THIS ILLEGAL BASTERD. AND THE REST OF
HIS BAND OF DEAMON'S!!. AND YES I GET SICK EVERY TIME I SEE HIM OR
HEAR HIS VOICE, And if there was someone in D.C. that would stand up to
him and let him know he needs to go back to from where he came. if there is
no one that will stand up to him then we get rid of allof them . and put some one
in that will put omama in his place. GOD BLESS THIS COUNTRY.
You need psychiatric help.
This is what George did to England, could he possibly have the same plans for the US.
In a $10 billion 1992 deal whose success was contingent upon the devaluation of the British Pound, Soros earned himself a $1 billion profit and the title, "the man who broke the Bank of England." To date, he has amassed a personal fortune exceeding $7 billion. In addition, his management company controls billions of dollars more in investor assets.
You be the judge.
Im in total agreement with you… Obama is bankrupting our country. We need to get him out of office.
The obviousness of these revelations is annoying in light of the cover-ups the democratic congress and the all too willing media are battering the uninformed American public with. Most of the liberals I speak to are all too willing to accept the nonsense about Bush being the problem, because they are unwilling to listen to or be swayed by the truth. Of course, it is the liberal media that defines truth in the eyes of these uninformed. Until they are willing to look deeply enough into what is actually going on, rather than to be swayed by the touchy-feely slop they are fed at the trough, we will only experience further grief from liberal, socialistic and communistic tendencies of the elected officials. I never thought we could elect the destruction of the Constitution.
What a bunch of cry babies. Impeachment isn't going to happen in your life time, so just sit back and wait for 7 more years then maybe you cry babies can elect one of your own.
Sometime in the near future the B/S coming out of the White House has got to stop. Nobody can spread B/S so
deep and thick a blind man can't see through it. To many Americans have already lost everything they own or
can ever expect to earn or have. The hold goverment package has to go one way or another, vote them out or
impeach them. Just fire all the Zares and put troops on the steps to runoff the Lobbiest. John A.
Betty Send him back to Kenya thats where he was born he left their when he was 2 yrs old;then went to Indonesia until he was 12yrs old .Then went to live with his grand parents in Hawai .Thats what was told..
And for our sake send Pelosia & Reid with him.
Are you really that ignorant? Let me guess, you probably live in some small town in Alabama and fly the Confederate flag outside your house. Well Betty, I really hate to be the one to break it to you, but our President is indeed an America citizen. Hawaii is one of 50 states that make up what is known as the United States. Perhaps you should return to school to relearn that history lesson. Oh wait! You can't! Because King George diverted so much of this country's funding to two fruitless wars so that we now don't even have money to educate the children of this country. What a shame! Too bad we couldn't impeach King George before he tore down everything that this country was built on.
Hmm, let's see. Maybe it's not as bad as you make it out to be:
1. Deficits are normal during a recession, and are seen by most economists as sound policy at such times.
2. The stock market is up by almost 20% since Obama took office, which means that millions of investors have greater confidence now.
http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/international-ma…
3. Housing sales are up, and consumer confidence is also on the rise.
http://www.market-harmonics.com/free-charts/senti…
4. And the economy grew at an annual rate of almost 6% last quarter, after SHRINKING for more than a year under GW Bush.
OVERALL EVALUATION: Having inherited the worst economic crisis in 80 years, he's starting to turn things around.
Oh Boy, another obama lover. Get a grip, you are totally wrong. Read Floyd's proof, look it up yourself, and you will see that you are deceived, maybe like Obama, you too like to totally s t r e t c h the truth.
—– Original Message —–
From: Ava D
Indonesia , Left to Right:
Lolo Soetoro, Stanley Ann Dunham Soetoro, baby Maya Soetoro, and 9 year old Barry Soetoro.
This registration document, made available on Jan.. 24, 2007, by the Fransiskus Assisi school in Jakarta , Indonesia , shows the registration of Barack Obama under the name Barry Soetoro made by his step-father, Lolo Soetoro.
Name: Barry Soetoro
Religion: Islam
Nationality: Indonesian
How did this little INDONESIAN Muslim child – Barry Soetoro, (A.K.A. Barack Obama), get around the issue of nationality to become President of the United States of America ?
This is a HOAX, and has been definitively debunked:
http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/barackobama/a/ob…
http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/barackobama/a/ob…
Stop spreading lies!
To qualify for this scholarship, a student must claim foreign citizenship..
This document provides the smoking gun that many of Obama's detractors have been seeking – that he is NOT a natural-born citizen of the United States – necessary to be President of these United States . Along with the evidence that he was first born in Kenya , here we see that there is no record of him ever applying for US citizenship.
Gary Kreep of the United States Justice Foundation has released the results of their investigation of Obama's campaign spending. This study estimates that Obama has spent upwards of $950,000 in campaign funds in the past year with eleven law firms in 12 states for legal resources to block disclosure of any of his personal records. Mr. Kreep indicated that the investigation is still on-going but that the final report will be provided to the U..S. attorney general, Eric Holder.
Mr. Holder has refused comment on this matter.
This is a HOAX, and has been definitively debunked:
http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/barackobama/a/ob…
http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/barackobama/a/ob…
Stop spreading lies!
PART 2:
In a move certain to fuel the debate over Obama's qualifications for the presidency, the group "Americans for Freedom of Information" has released copies of President Obama's college transcripts from Occidental College ..
The transcript indicates that Obama, under the name Barry Soetoro, received financial aid as a foreign student from Indonesia while an undergraduate at the school. The transcript was released by Occidental College in compliance with a court order in a suit brought by the group in the Superior Court of California . The transcript shows that Obama (Soetoro) applied for financial aid and was awarded a fellowship for foreign students from the Fulbright Foundation Scholarship program.
I agree with Honest Abe that this is inaccurate information (as confirmed by Snopes).
If you want to read what appears to be legitimate, accurate information concerning this issue, go to ObamaCrimes.com. This is the website of Philip J. Berg, Esquire, the Democrat who has filed a lawsuit in Federal Court against Barack Obama in an effort to require him to provide his birth certificate as proof of his natural-born U.S. citizenship. The "certificate of live birth" from the state of Hawaii is not the same thing as a birth certificate which verifies the location and attendant at a birth. Barack's half-sister, who was born in Indonesia a few years after Barack was born, also has a "certificate of live birth" from Hawaii that was obtained by relatives soon after her birth in another country. This proves NOTHING. Please visit this website and read the evidence that Philip Berg has gathered together regarding this issue. He is convinced that Barack is a PHONY and a HOAX who is seated illegally as the President of the United States.
To qualify for this scholarship, a student must claim foreign citizenship..
This document provides the smoking gun that many of Obama's detractors have been seeking – that he is NOT a natural-born citizen of the United States – necessary to be President of these United States . Along with the evidence that he was first born in Kenya , here we see that there is no record of him ever applying for US citizenship.
Gary Kreep of the United States Justice Foundation has released the results of their investigation of Obama's campaign spending. This study estimates that Obama has spent upwards of $950,000 in campaign funds in the past year with eleven law firms in 12 states for legal resources to block disclosure of any of his personal records. Mr. Kreep indicated that the investigation is still on-going but that the final report will be provided to the U..S. attorney general, Eric Holder.
Mr. Holder has refused comment on this matter.
AMEN; The Dems. dominated congress and caused the problems. I whole hartedly agree.
I wish to start by saying that I did not vote for obama or do I agree with his policies…but the deficit is BUSH'S fault….dosen't anyone rember the war?…that is the reason for the deficit…also BUSH is the reason obama got elected…so when you rant about obama …just look in the mirror…IT'S YOUR EFFIN FAULT….hopefully we will survive one more year…then the voters will correct it….oh one more thing ….was bush's re-election really a mandate as he said it was
You sound like Obama now, blame it on Bush. I'm sure it must have been Bush's fault that the BP oil rig blew up too.
By the way, FDR ran MUCH larger deficits for more than a decade, and the economy grew steadily through the 1930s, 40s, and 50s with little inflation. The only downturn occurred in 1937, when FDR tried to balance the budget.
http://www.ourfuture.org/files/images/Depression-…
http://www.everydaycitizen.com/2009/12/in_the_lon…
Moral of the story: deficits are OK, and sound policy in the short run as a way of dealing with recession.
Please visit the informative and legitimate website ObamaCrimes.com to find out why Philip J. Berg, Esquire, a Democrat, has filed a lawsuit in Federal Court against Barack Obama (or whatever his legal name is).
I must respone to the "Island of Sanity". If you don't catch on very soon that is 2010, not 19 nothing. You need to get your head as well of what else mite under the sand. Clean out your ears and wipe your eyes and cover your rear end for what's coming in your near future. John A.
Why doesn’t Tarzan have a beard?
I have a few questions. Where where you people when Bush jr ran this country into the ground? Where were you when he allowed an possibly arranged for 4 planes to be hijack and kill thousands? Where were you when he sent our troops into Iraq to hunt down Saddam Hussein for nothing? and talk about having a president that lied.. erm.. how was Bush elected as president.. Oh his cousin helped him fake votes and miscount others. I think you guys should stop worrying about impeaching a president and maybe complain to you congressman who is milking you for all your worth to get ahead. The next time you complain about Obama pushing health care down peoples throats, consider this. more than half of the working class families have no insurance, they pay for the poor to have it and help the rich get richer. Who pays for their children when they need to go to a doctor… surely none of you. so instead of sitting and screaming impeach.. why dont we force the republicans and democrats to start doing their jobs an help the American people get what they need and deserve.
This is an example of viciously competitive individual who does anything to get into the driver's seat and then we find out that he can't drive!! . This person is totally unqualified to handle any position of responsibility, much less the presidency. He is ingenuous, can't be trusted and is totally lost without his handlers (one of which is "co-president" Axelrod.)
Supposing we are faced with another "Cuban Missile Crises"; can one imagine his finger on the button??
And its not a question of politics: Harry Truman was a Democrat. This guy, however, has given the office over to a cabal of some very vindictive people who are out to destroy our Capitalistic system. In the least, this is misfeasance and has to be grounds for impeachment. Don't think we can survive three more years.
Well, Mr. or Mrs. Proud American, you are so stupid, it is unreal. I am a citizen of a small town in Alabama and I fly the American flag on a 20 foot flagpole every day of the week. I have a degree in Political Science among other’s. You go right ahead and stay in bed with O’ Bama and his so called administration and find out how it works for you. If you know so damn much, you prove that he is a citizen of the United States Of America instead of just bashing those who believe that he is not!!! Can you tell me why he has paid laywer’s millions of our tax dollars to keep his origin of birth a secret? You just hang right in there and and see how it works out for you!!
Obama in my opinion is a narcissistic sociopath and is a clear and present danger to this country.