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**Idorsearogele** · 02-14-2011, 05:54 PM

And as much as I'd love to blame it on Clinton, the 'unified budget' spending the SS surplus (which no longer exists) began under LBJ.

The accounting had been done that way before Clinton, but I thought that the Clinton admin was the first to start only mentioning the public debt when discussing how great their policies were.

Why does nobody acknowledge the fact that Obama put the wars on the books, sending his deficits even higher? He inherited it from Bush and had the decency and the responsibility of accounting for it instead of pretending it doesn't exist.

It was something I was definitely aware of, amazed he was willing to take the political hit for doing it, and glad he did it. What bush did to mask the cost of the wars should have been treated as an accounting crime.

02-14-2011, 05:54 PM	#32
Idorsearogele Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 435 Senior Member	And as much as I'd love to blame it on Clinton, the 'unified budget' spending the SS surplus (which no longer exists) began under LBJ. The accounting had been done that way before Clinton, but I thought that the Clinton admin was the first to start only mentioning the public debt when discussing how great their policies were. Why does nobody acknowledge the fact that Obama put the wars on the books, sending his deficits even higher? He inherited it from Bush and had the decency and the responsibility of accounting for it instead of pretending it doesn't exist. It was something I was definitely aware of, amazed he was willing to take the political hit for doing it, and glad he did it. What bush did to mask the cost of the wars should have been treated as an accounting crime.
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