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**TCjwwhcY** · 07-26-2011, 12:25 AM

Whose spending? Both.

If that graph were honest, it would show part of the tax cuts as Obama's since he renewed them.

Even as is, it shows that Obama has added 1.44 trillion to the debt, and that is nothing to celebrate.

So if Obama simply decides to continue spending on stuff that the previous administration did he gets a pass? Looks to me like a little more than $3 Trillion of that stuff under Bush is, at a minimum, shared.

At least you guys are being somewhat honest. Tea partiers and the like to not lend themselves to such honesty.

The Bush tax cuts were a Republican demand which they forced Obama to accept to prevent them from shutting the government. I can't in good conscience call this an Obama addition to the deficit.

It's even a stretch to call recovery measures Obama additions since they were shock reactions to a (largely) Republican crash of the economy but in the interest of being non partisan I will put them (as the graph does) in the Obama column.

07-26-2011, 12:25 AM	#11
TCjwwhcY Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 364 Senior Member	Whose spending? Both. If that graph were honest, it would show part of the tax cuts as Obama's since he renewed them. Even as is, it shows that Obama has added 1.44 trillion to the debt, and that is nothing to celebrate. So if Obama simply decides to continue spending on stuff that the previous administration did he gets a pass? Looks to me like a little more than $3 Trillion of that stuff under Bush is, at a minimum, shared. At least you guys are being somewhat honest. Tea partiers and the like to not lend themselves to such honesty. The Bush tax cuts were a Republican demand which they forced Obama to accept to prevent them from shutting the government. I can't in good conscience call this an Obama addition to the deficit. It's even a stretch to call recovery measures Obama additions since they were shock reactions to a (largely) Republican crash of the economy but in the interest of being non partisan I will put them (as the graph does) in the Obama column.
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