Republicans won this election in large part by claiming that Obama is outspending Bush. How did they get away with this lie? Bush never included the spending on the wars he started in the national budget. Obama did. In addition, Bush added the massive Defense Authorization Act and the massive Omnibus bill that he fought for and passed, to 2009's budget, rather than 2008's, so that debt shows up an year later once Bush was safely out of office.
Add the war spending back into Bush's budgets and this is what happens...
http://www.nytimes.com/...
If the democrats had half a brain, that graphic would have been plastered all over this past election cycle. Instead, they didn't challenge the Republican lie that Obama is outspending Bush with the fact that Obama's expenditures make up a tiny tiny sliver of the national debt.
Of course, blaming Bush for the debt is somewhat unfair. The problem goes farther back, about 20 years farther back.
http://zfacts.com/...
A full 8.2 trillion dollars of our current national debt was put into place a full 18 years before even Bush arrived on the scene, and it continues to add to our current debt at an exponential rate
http://www.strongdems.com/...
This is what caused the national debt to skyrocket. This is the reason that the wealth inequality, and the poverty of the middle class in this nation today is worse than banana republics!
http://www.nytimes.com/...
The richest 1 percent of Americans now take home almost 24 percent of income, up from almost 9 percent in 1976. As Timothy Noah of Slate noted in an excellent series on inequality, the United States now arguably has a more unequal distribution of wealth than traditional banana republics like Nicaragua, Venezuela and Guyana.
C.E.O.’s of the largest American companies earned an average of 42 times as much as the average worker in 1980, but 531 times as much in 2001. Perhaps the most astounding statistic is this: From 1980 to 2005, more than four-fifths of the total increase in American incomes went to the richest 1 percent.
A simple look at this demonstrates that keeping everything today exactly the same, but simply doing away with the Bush tax cuts, and returning the military spending to Pre-Iraq war levels pays off our defecit completely!
http://www.nytimes.com/...
That's the right, the entirity of the so called enormous national defecit can be fixed simply by doing away with Bush's tax cuts and returning the military spending to what it was Pre-Iraq war!
And that's not even including the 500 billion dollars in unfunded giveaways to drug companies that Bush signed into law, all while refusing to let medicare negotiate for lower prices.
As such, I invite fellow kossacks to help make this link go viral...
http://www.nytimes.com/...
Post it in forums, in blogs, whereever and end the republican lie that Obama or the democrats share any of the blame for the current debt. And when some one shows you a graphic saying that Obama's budget increase is comparable to Bush's, point out the fact that Obama's budgets includes the two wars we are fighting, where as Bush's budgets do not. In addition, Bush added the massive Defense Authorization Act and the massive Omnibus bill that he fought for and passed, to 2009's budget, rather than 2008's, so that debt shows up an year later once Bush was safely out of office.