I heard that too but I can’t figure out how they could think that. The debt went up more than the other president’s combined. I would love to see the math on this.
... guess it all depends on how one defines the term “government spending” ....
What a load of sycophantic crap.
i remember when this came out...Carney evidently screamed at reporters on Air Force 1 about this report....it was debunked within 24 hours, hence that’s why we have not heard of it much since....
Is Marketwatch doing satire now? I too would like to see their math.
This has been extensively debunked by the WSJ, IBD, and others. It has no place at this point on this forum.
These ‘Progressives’ are delusional. From 8/31/12
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2924839/posts?page=23#23
Read this nonsense in the post by the author of the article!!
“Obama is a Republican at heart, but he decided (probably in 1996) to enter politics as a Democrat, because there would be no way for him to become the first black President as a self-acknowledged conservative and Republican. As President, he negotiated in congress more with Boehner than with either Pelosi or Reid, and he did that right at the start, when Democrats dominated in both houses. It’s too much to go into here; but, in any case, I nowhere said that Obama is liberal. I consider him fairly conservative, conservative enough to want the Republicans to control Congress, even though that requires him to negotiate much harder with Boehner and McConnell than he would have to negotiate with Pelosi and Reid if he were a liberal. But my interpretation of Obama’s motivation isn’t even part of this article; all it discusses about him is that the nation has veered even farther to the right during his Presidency, something that loads of polls document.”
The trick is to say Bush is responisble for all of FY 09 spending (not Obama), including the Stimulus, Clunkers, Stimulus Jr, etc.
You then have a new baseline. And so Obama has just maintained it.
It’s been thoroughly debunked... months ago.
ahhh When he took office debit was around $9 bil, now $16 bil, what are they drunk?
Put FY 2009 into Obama's column and he's the mad spender we know and... well, the one we know.
Second of all, he's discussing the percentage that spending INCREASED under Obama, not the spending itself.
So, yes, Obama is spending more, much more, but his spending increase percentage is relatively low. It's a very misleading argument.
Kinda like this:
Person “A” has a credit card debt of $100 and charged 20 more dollars. He increased his debt by 20%.
Person “B” has a credit card debt of $300 and charged 30 more dollars. He increased his debt by 10%.
So is Person B some sort of tightwad? I don't think so.
IMHO, the author just wanted to make Obama look good, and he twisted the data until he found something he liked.
Who is the greatest ballplayer of all time? Ty Cobb? Babe Ruth? Surprisingly, the answer is actually Bob Uecker.
One more refutation:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/the-facts-about-the-growth-of-spending-under-obama/2012/05/24/gJQAIJh6nU_blog.html
Been debunked already.
Guess we are going to have to continue to put up with this crap until at least November.
Author: “Rick Ungar, Contributor
Writing from the left on politics and policy. “
That tells me everything I need to know.
Bush’s budget deficit in 2006 was $371 billion! Obama has had budget deficits of over $1.3 trillion dollars every year.
The Heritage Foundation explains the slight of hand the Dems are trying to do:
Setting Obama’s “Great Fiscal Restraint Record” Straight
http://blog.heritage.org/2012/05/24/setting-obamas-great-fiscal-restraint-record-straight/
