Hopey Blamey
Our national debt has increased $4 TRILLION under Obama, and naturally, he isn't taking responsibility; he's pointing fingers backward. Mark Knoller writes at CBSnews.com:
The national debt increased $4.9 trillion during the eight-year presidency of George W. Bush. The debt now is rising at a pace to surpass that amount during Mr. Obama's four-year term.Mr. Obama blames policies inherited from his predecessor's administration for the soaring debt. He singles out:
"two wars we didn't pay for" "a prescription drug program for seniors...we didn't pay for." "tax cuts in 2001 and 2003 that were not paid for." CBSNews.com special report: America's debt battleHe goes on to blame the recession, and its resulting decrease in tax revenue on businesses, for making fewer sales, and more employees being laid off. He says the recession also resulted in more government spending due to increased unemployment insurance payments, subsidies to farms and funding of infrastructure programs that were part of his stimulus program.
At the first town hall meeting of his Midwestern bus trip last week, Mr. Obama told an audience in Minnesota that "the debt problem is real and the deficit problem is real."
But he also called in "a manageable problem."
How? By paying people to dig big holes -- or maybe their own graves so they can be buried alive and avoid collecting Social Security?
Everybody heard about the locus of yesterday's earthquake, right? Yep, the Bush Fault....
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Crid [CridComment at gmail] at August 25, 2011 12:18 AM
Why is it that anyone who was fed up with Bush's overspending and now with Obama's overspending is commonly deemed to be:
- Selfish
- Greedy
- Unpatriotic
- Evil
- A terrorist
Have we indeed entered the Twilight Zone?!?
Robert W. at August 25, 2011 12:28 AM
I don't even bother to listen to what he says anymore.
Let me know when he actually says something worth listening to. Something I haven't heard a dozen times before.
Otherwise, he'll remain nothing more than annoying background noise to me.
jimg at August 25, 2011 1:19 AM
Once a budget bill is passed the sitting president can no longer really blame the issues on the the former president. At least that was tradition.
This jackal couldn't get a budget passed with a majority in both houses for two years. Then when he loses the House, essentially with a vote of no confidence, it the Republican's fault he is up against a brick wall. He then whines and pouts until he gets his way.
We can't get rid of him soon enough.
Jim P. at August 25, 2011 3:30 AM
Oh -- and how is it Bush's fault that there was a ramp up in Afghanistan and that we are bombing the crap out of Libya?
Jim P. at August 25, 2011 7:01 AM
That's because Bush started it! The whole mess over there is his fault! Just ask Obaba!
Sheeesh.
Flynne at August 25, 2011 7:10 AM
The SCFoMF has spent how much in how little time?
I R A Darth Aggie at August 25, 2011 7:54 AM
According to the LA Times, "the debt that our federal government owes a whole lot of somebodies including China has increased $4,247,000,000,000 in just 945 days. That's the fastest increase under any president ever."
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2011/08/obama-national-debt.html
Conan the Grammarian at August 25, 2011 11:54 AM
It's the spending.
The Senate gave Obama's budget no votes. Zero. None. Killed it 94 to nothing.
This year's budget should have been produced by the Nancy Pelosi House, but they delivered nothing.
Instead, with expenditures outpacing income, the Congress and the President agree to spend even more, but a little bit less than they otherwise want to. In DC speak, this is called a cut.
If this was your crazy uncle Larry, you'd be having him declared incompetent and taking over his affairs.
MarkD at August 25, 2011 12:49 PM
I seem to recall he made promises to end all those wars and bring all the troops home. Instead he stepped them up, did nothing to end them, and started new ones. But of course it's not his fault, it's not like he was president of the United States or anything. Whatever happened to the loudmouth anti-war crowd when Bush was president? After Obama changed the policies he ran his campaign on, and stepped up those same wars, suddenly they were all replaced with a bunch of chirping crickets.
Lobster at August 27, 2011 7:17 AM
"If the US Government was a family, they would be making $58,000 a year. They spend $75,000 a year & are $327,000 in credit card debt. They are currently proposing BIG spending cuts to reduce their spending to $72,000 a year. These are the actual proportions of the federal budget & debt, reduced to a level that we can understand." - Dave Ramsey
Fact is, Bush and Obama are both backed by the same puppet-masters, and now they're positioning new puppets for 2012, trying to go back to 'business as usual' for the next election, as if nothing has happened.
Obama's economic advisors continue to promote, incidentally, that spending much more even, is the 'solution' to our problems.
Lobster at August 27, 2011 7:22 AM
"Whatever happened to the loudmouth anti-war crowd when Bush was president?"
Saw an article about this recently... some anti-war leaders were interviewed and they made it clear that they're laying low for partisan reasons. If the GOP wins the Presidency in 2012, they'll be back in force. And a non-interventionist Republican who withdraws from all of those wars won't get any pass from them... they'll just turn into open-borders protestors. Remember, your safety and security is not what they're concerned about.
Cousin Dave at August 27, 2011 8:42 AM
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