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If it's good news..Obama did it.
If it's bad news...Bush's fault OR still cleaning up the mess from the previous administration.
Shouldn't surprise anyone.
Well then! Obama can take credit for the 4 middle aged Men fired from my husbands job, on Wednesday of this past week, very sad, they were also good reliable workers. Very sad indeed. Getting a little scarey.
Federal Spending-
2009--3518 Billion (bush)
2010 Budget--3721 Billion (obama)
Obama first budget was 2010 budget.
3721B.
He is responsible for only 5 months of spending
His budget began 10-1-10
His budgets projects he will
go from Bush 3518B to 3915B in his last budget in 2013.
3518:3915=10% increase.
omb.gov/2010 budget
Well, that's still not good. "The last guy was pretty much the same" is not a good reason to not try to fix the spending problem. I'll give Obama the benefit of the doubt for now, we'll see what he does now that we're starting to recover and there's not much excuse for excessive spending. I hope he can make the cuts, and I know he wants to, I just don't know if he can actually do it. Either way, it's clear Obama's spending is nowhere near the evil socialist tyrannical catastrophe that most of his detractors make it out to be
Now add in the two wars and what was the total for 2008?
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