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Certainly. But after 2000 not much was done to prevent it.... Bush owns the wars, economic downturn and debt that happened under his watch up until Obama was inaugurated, to which Obama owns it after that.
My sister is in great danger of losing her home, and I'm sure it's all Bush's fault. Yep, he demanded she and her husband buy a home they couldn't afford.
Now that I think about it, maybe it's BO's fault .....
My sister is in great danger of losing her home, and I'm sure it's all Bush's fault. Yep, he demanded she and her husband buy a home they couldn't afford.
Now that I think about it, maybe it's BO's fault .....
Not everything is due to the government. Banking institutions make their own decisions too.
Nothing Bush did approaches what Democrats did as soon as they gained control of Congress in 2007.
In the years before Pelosi and Reid took control, Bush deficits were $157 bn , $377 bn, $412 bn, $318 bn, $248 bn and $160 bn.
After Democrats took control, the deficits increased to $458 bn, then exceeded a trillion dollars every year thereafter and all while refusing to pass a budget.
Trying to blame the Democrat's spending on Bush or even Congressional Republicans is absolutely effin' hilarious!
Put another way, is Bush responsible for our national debt being this high by getting us into two unfunded wars and cutting taxes at the same time? Sounds like a form of voodoo economics to me, but I sometimes speculate on what direction this country would have gone with 8 years of Gore rather than George W. "I'm a war president! I'm a war president! I'm a war president!" Bush.
To quote your opening post:
"Would We Have Averted a 16 Trillion-Dollar National Debt If Bush Had Never Been "Elected"
Its hard to say for sure, however given the fact the precedent was started by Reagan's administration and by the GOP( the party of fiscal responsibility), it made it easier and justifiable for Bush and Cheney to run deficits. Yet in an odd way, it allows for Obama and crew to add nitro boosters to Bush's accelerator. He came in with the bandwagon that he was different from Bush and was going to 'fix' things...
My sister is in great danger of losing her home, and I'm sure it's all Bush's fault. Yep, he demanded she and her husband buy a home they couldn't afford.
Now that I think about it, maybe it's BO's fault .....
I know plenty of Cons in here would say no one forced her to buy a home she couldn't afford, it was just made easier to afford more than what she could afford thanks to both parties and the failure to create a program that monitored everything and to make sure junk loans were being prevented.
Put another way, is Bush responsible for our national debt being this high by getting us into two unfunded wars and cutting taxes at the same time? Sounds like a form of voodoo economics to me, but I sometimes speculate on what direction this country would have gone with 8 years of Gore rather than George W. "I'm a war president! I'm a war president! I'm a war president!" Bush.
You are a poor soul. One of the Bush wars has been declared over and Obama declared Afghanistan to be hi war when he sent many thousands less troops to make the big push to end that one. Actually you are sounding like you have been affected by some of the Democrat crap they throw around.
Anyway, Bush had about $5 trillion of debt added on in 8 years and Obama has added on all of $5 trillion in 3 1/2 years. I don't think you are seeing beyond all the Obama campaign crap at all. You do know that he has been on the campaign trail for over 1 1/2 years now, don't you?
Oh well, I can't get past your erected lib shield in front of you brain so have at it.
It would have been something with Gore also. Obama could have stopped the reckless spending but he didn't. We weren't 16 trillion in debt when Bush left.
Bush will go down as a failed president but there is no reason to believe that the financial mess wouldn't have been as bad if not worse under Gore. Gore would have still undertook some sort of war policy.
Gore would have instigated Cap and Trade and all the green crap before Obama came along, though.
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