Under Speaker Pelosi $3.66 Billion in Debt per day

[calibro1]

Originally Posted by pommysmommy

Obama supporters will never admit to a failed stimulus that left countless U.S. families homeless while Obama sent "charity" money to foreign countries.

President Bush sent more to African nations. In fact, Obama lauded him for his "charity money to foreign countries".

[sanrene]

Originally Posted by calibro1

Liberal bashing seems to be the point of the thread. I mean why else not include that the debt was for the American Recovery Act, unemployment benefits, help to our auto industry, the increase in troops (which many liberals feel was a bad idea)...all of which were responses to crises that started under Bush.

$5.3 Trillion added to the debt by the democrats since 2007, $3.2 Trillion of that in the last two years, $800 Billion of that through the failed stimulus.....a LOT of other spending by the democrats tucked in there.

[calibro1]

Originally Posted by sanrene

$5.3 Trillion added to the debt by the democrats since 2007, $3.2 Trillion of that in the last two years, $800 Billion of that through the failed stimulus.....a LOT of other spending by the democrats tucked in there.

I wish I didn't hate emoticons so much. I would do the hand slapping one right now.

The stimulus is not a failure. It provided unemployment benefits, helped the infrastructure (something I saw firsthand literally in front of my parent's house).

Was there waste? Yes. However, to call it a failure is to not take account the benefits it provided to the economy.

[sanrene]

Originally Posted by calibro1

I wish I didn't hate emoticons so much. I would do the hand slapping one right now.

The stimulus is not a failure. It provided unemployment benefits, helped the infrastructure (something I saw firsthand literally in front of my parent's house).

Was there waste? Yes. However, to call it a failure is to not take account the benefits it provided to the economy.

The negative impact of obama taking $1+ trillion OUT of the private sector to spread around for a long wish list of liberal pork barrel ideas FAR outweighed any benefit it might have had for select areas of the country.

As obama admitted, there is and never was shovel ready projects, the money spent to "save" jobs was a temporary measure, now those jobs are on the cutting block.