June 16, 201214 yr Author ..and because you should always seek validation for any political claim... The facts about the growth of spending under Obama, Part 3 - The Washington Post
June 16, 201214 yr Author Various experts disagree as how to assign spending to a President when said President takes office four months into a budget year. This graph assigned spending from the remaining 8 months of the first term to the previous President.
June 16, 201214 yr GWB was a spend happy President who ballooned the deficit & ravaged the economy. Obama has continued & even escalated that spending.
June 16, 201214 yr Clyde, it doesn't matter what the chart says. People are gonna believe what they believe.
June 16, 201214 yr Author DId anyone read the 2nd link where people discussed the way the numbers came about ? All I've seen so far are generalizations.
June 16, 201214 yr Unfortunately neither side wants to give hard numbers and let the people decide for themselves. They think they have to simplify it, water it down so that we the people in fly over country can understand it.
June 17, 201214 yr Unfortunately neither side wants to give hard numbers and let the people decide for themselves. They think they have to simplify it, water it down so that we the people in fly over country can understand it. Soooooo ... nothing you've seen matters, unless it comes from an acceptable source? One that confirms what you've already been told? I have about as much love for Obama as I do Don Henley.
June 17, 201214 yr DId anyone read the 2nd link where people discussed the way the numbers came about ? All I've seen so far are generalizations. I got more from the second link than I did from the chart.
June 17, 201214 yr I thought the article explains better.... Which President Is the Biggest Spender, Part II - Forbes
June 18, 201214 yr Soooo ... nothing you've seen matters, unless it comes from an acceptable source? One that confirms what you've already been told? I have about as much love for Obama as I do Don Henley. No, not at all. What I am saying is that both sides want to talk in generalities, neither seems to give hard irrefutable numbers. Everything that is reported seems open for interpretation. My biggest complaint with all politicians is they always say, "I have a plan to fix ______." However they never give the nuts and bolts of their plan so that the American people can decide for themselves if what they are saying makes sense or feasible. "I have a plan to balance the budget, I have a plan to grow jobs, I have a plan to grow better daisy's"...but they never elaborate on the plan.
June 18, 201214 yr Soooooo ... nothing you've seen matters, unless it comes from an acceptable source? One that confirms what you've already been told? I have about as much love for Obama as I do Don Henley. :eek::scared: I didn't know it was that bad!!!! :lol:
June 18, 201214 yr I got more from the second link than I did from the chart. I thought the Part II link was very good. It answers a lot of questions about the various ways to look at spending and showing all measurements in a seemingly balanced approach.
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