Wall Street Journal: "Massive Obama spending - never happened"

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Originally Posted by Handsome Boy

I wonder why the graph doesn't include 2009, the first year of the Obama presidency?

Because of the way our budget years work.

Too difficult to understand why actual year 2009 was a Bush budget created in 2007 and passed (effectively renewed, let's be frank) in 2008 and in-service in 2009?

Then go with it's a Kenyan Muslim Communist conspiracy, "Handsome Boy"

They did give him credit for his own rather large budget item, didn't they? Just as Bush gets credit for all the spending he caused - no matter the year it occurs within.





I rest my case. You boys have fun :-)

Here's the link for the second article, which provided the above two charts (one the same as WSJ), based upon the Wall Street Journal info but expanded to include the deficit
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-ce...l?ref=politics