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"Amidst all the cries of Barack Obama being the most prolific big government spender the nation has ever suffered, Marketwatch is reporting that our president has actually been tighter with a buck than any United States president since Dwight D. Eisenhower. Who knew? So, how have the Republicans managed to persuade Americans to buy into the whole “Obama as big spender” narrative?"
Read the article and check out the chart. It shows Obama and Clinton spent less than Bush Jr., Bush Sr., and Reagan. Republican solution to all problems is to spend more of our money.
Really, you're dumb as a f*****g rock if you think a Republican president is going to reign in spending. Maybe someday there'll be a viable conservative libertarian-style candidate, but the only options to make it out of the primaries since the 80s have been big-government big-business pseudo-conservatives.
Um... 9 years after the recession is over Obama's own OMB still estimates $475 billion deficit for 2018. Nine years later... Maybe you ought to think about that in the context of Bush's previous record of $458 billion and maybe those making claims like this will step back into the real world and back to reality where their propaganda is so easily debunked and so easily found.
Really, you're dumb as a f*****g rock if you think a Republican president is going to reign in spending. Maybe someday there'll be a viable conservative libertarian-style candidate, but the only options to make it out of the primaries since the 80s have been big-government big-business pseudo-conservatives.
You can grow the economy in three ways. Lowering taxes, warring around the planet and/or the Federal Reserve "injecting" money in to the system. Stopping warring, raising taxes and the Federal Reserve raising interest rates does the exact opposite. You can draw your own conclusions and make your own predictions about what the next president will be doing and the next one after that and so on...
Hahaha, this whole thread started because Forbes said Obama was the smallest government spender..
"A conflict of interest is a situation in which financial or other personal considerations have the potential to compromise or bias professional judgment and objectivity."
The owners of Forbes do (not) make more money when they say "Obama was the smallest government spender", that is not a conflict of interest.
But when Forbes says "tax cuts for the rich are a positive thing" this is a conflict of interest. Those tax cuts give the owners of Forbes money, that is a conflict of interest.
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