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What exactly is there to say. His words are there for that period of time and this is now. The same with all of the other Presidents that campaigned on one thing and the minute they get in office, have to eat their words while back peddling. And since you've involked GWB....Remember GWB I? Read my lips no new taxes....GWB II...We will not be the world police for every nation.
Now again DUPLICATE THREAD.
Great, we all know you proved your point that it is a "duplicate thread" (which by the way proves and means NOTHING), does that change the fact that what he got elected on and what he is doing are 2 different things? You got duped by a man with no experience and a few empty words. Now the country is paying dearly for it. Step up on the discussion an realize that if you bashed Bush at all, you should be bashing this clown twice as hard since he has just taken what Bush did and made it far worse.
Just one more example of what a pathetic joke this guy is. Any guesses how much more debt he'll be proposing in his big teleprompter-reading event this week? Oh wait - I forgot - he always makes sure his spending wishlists are too vague to be scored by the CBO...
Great, we all know you proved your point that it is a "duplicate thread" (which by the way proves and means NOTHING), does that change the fact that what he got elected on and what he is doing are 2 different things? You got duped by a man with no experience and a few empty words. Now the country is paying dearly for it. Step up on the discussion an realize that if you bashed Bush at all, you should be bashing this clown twice as hard since he has just taken what Bush did and made it far worse.
Maybe you've never paid attention to my posts. I NEVER get on these boards and make ANY excuses for Obama or any of the other IDIOTS in DC. Their all the same, nothing they do shock me or disappoint. They say one thing during their campaign and do something completely different once elected. As far as getting duped, it would be you if you honestly believe McCain/Palin would have done any better or would have held true to their words. Show me one Politician that has kept true to his words. I'll wait.
The purpose of this thread is to try to label Obama as a hypocrite because during the Bush Administration he spoke against deficits.
The reality is that during the Bush Admin., when unemployment was 5%, we should have been controlling deficits so that we had reserves to spend in bad times.
Republican hypocrisy is a bit harder to justify. During that same period, Republicans were saying, "deficits don't matter." Now, when we really could use deficits to offset lower public demand and create jobs, the Republicans are against deficits.
There is plenty of hypocrisy to go around. We have Eric Cantor wanting spending offsets for disaster victims but requires no offsets for two expensive wars or disasters in this state.
When Bush took office in 2000 the deficit was 5.6 trillion dollars. When he left office it was 10.5 trillion dollars and his administration had alredy approved close to 1 trillion in tarp funds to keep American Financial institutions from collapsing. Republicans didn't seem to mind any of this. Not a peep.
TARP funds are LOAN GUARANTEES. They have been paid back so you cannot add them to the National Debt under President Bush. If Barack takes those repayments and diverts them to other spending priorities then that are added to HIS National Debt total.
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