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Obama's Small Government
Forbes ^

Posted on 10/14/2013 11:05:27 AM PDT by Paul46360

Amidst all the cries of Barack Obama being the most prolific big government spender the nation has ever suffered, Marketwatch is reporting that our president has actually been tighter with a buck than any United States president since Dwight D. Eisenhower.

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1 posted on 10/14/2013 11:05:27 AM PDT by Paul46360
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To: Paul46360
Amidst all the cries of Barack Obama being the most prolific big government spender the nation has ever suffered, Marketwatch is reporting that our president has actually been tighter with a buck than any United States president since Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha . . . . . . . !!!

Wait! You mean they were serious!!???

2 posted on 10/14/2013 11:09:15 AM PDT by DustyMoment (Congress - another name for the American politburo!!)
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To: Paul46360

Just because he’s stingy with HIS money doesn’t mean he’s thrifty with YOUR money.


3 posted on 10/14/2013 11:09:22 AM PDT by BuffaloJack (Gun Control is the Key to totalitarianism and genocide.)
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What happened to Forbes? The first thing I see is a "Stop the GOP Obstructionism" ad.
The article itself is from another planet.

4 posted on 10/14/2013 11:13:14 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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To: Paul46360

I want some of what they are smoking.


5 posted on 10/14/2013 11:15:39 AM PDT by Henry Hnyellar
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To: Henry Hnyellar

The flaw in his thinking as that the final Bush budget was hugely inflated because of having to deal with the financial crisis. Prior to that, Bush’s deficits had been shrinking. But once the crisis passed, Obama kept the huge deficits at or near the huge level of the final Bush “crisis” budget.


6 posted on 10/14/2013 11:25:47 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: DustyMoment
"our president has actually been tighter with a buck than any United States president since Dwight D. Eisenhower."

A flat-out lie, based on a single misleading statistic.
7 posted on 10/14/2013 11:27:43 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: Paul46360

Why is an OP/ED that is 18 months old and has been thoroughly demolished on numerous occasions in “Breaking News?”


8 posted on 10/14/2013 11:27:51 AM PDT by FredZarguna (The sequel, thoroughly pointless, derivative, and boring was like all James Cameron "films.")
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To: Paul46360

What a pantload


9 posted on 10/14/2013 11:36:22 AM PDT by GeronL
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To: Paul46360
Old disingenuous article. Debunking is easy but will let some collectivists rag (Which is embarrassing for Unger/Nutting whose day-dreams of both Statist propagandist consists of performing fellatio on male democrats in powah!) do the honors.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/the-facts-about-the-growth-of-spending-under-obama/2012/05/24/gJQAIJh6nU_blog.html?wprss=rss_fact-checker
10 posted on 10/14/2013 11:44:11 AM PDT by rollo tomasi (Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians.)
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Whoops, Ungar not Unger but then again who gives a crap about a pied piper for shallow collectivist thinkers, so Unger it is.


11 posted on 10/14/2013 11:48:49 AM PDT by rollo tomasi (Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians.)
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To: FredZarguna

GOOD POINT...DID NOT SEE IT..SORRY


12 posted on 10/14/2013 11:52:45 AM PDT by Paul46360
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