[Steve_Seattle]

Interesting info. As usual, the media and Dems characterize a slower rate of INCREASE as a “cut.” Also, they casually accepted Obama’s much more optimistic GDP estimates (which did not even come close to the reality), while calling Trump’s more modest projections “wildly optimistic.”

[SeekAndFind]

Obama took steps to immediately boost spending in 2009, including pushing through the giant stimulus bill. The CBO has reported that stimulus outlays were $114 billion in 2009.

In Bush’s last budget, he proposed that 2009 spending be $177 billion above the 2008 level, but the actual increase ended up being a massive $386 billion. So you can see that Obama and Congress were mainly responsible for the huge spending leap in 2009, not Bush.

Spending growth in Obama’s first six years:

2009: 13%,
2010: 6%,
2011: 2%,
2012: -3%,
2013: 5%,
2014: 2%


Since Congress holds the purse strings and passes the budget, We ought to ask ourselves who CONTROLLED Congress in 2009 and 2010 and who controlled Congress ( at least one half of the house ) after that.

We have based our budget's size on the BASELINE of the outrageous spending of the past ( especially Obama's 13% increase in 2009 ).

BASELINE BUDGETING HAS GOT TO STOP!