Bush owned the first > 1 trillion dollar deficit, that budget was passed while he was still president. If we're doing stupid technicalities.
But again, that's silly partisan point scoring and totally beside the point. Pulling one-sided stats with a total lack of intellectual honesty in order to try and claim my side's better.
You're actually arguing here, "but if we cherry pick from the peak of the housing bubble, my side looks great! Just don't look at the following year".
I don't blindly cheer for democrats like they're a football team, I try to objectively evaluate what's going on. If more republican football fans did the same, we might actually have a deficit reduction deal, or a plan to help the jobs situation.
> Bush owned the first > 1 trillion dollar deficit, that budget was passed while he was still president.
Yup, and Obama has gone deeper.
I'm not claiming that Bush was good - I've said that he's bad. I'm pointing out that Obama and the Dems have been worse.
> If we're doing stupid technicalities.
One "stupid technicality" is that the Obama and the Dems haven't been all that interested in passing budgets.
That's why I talk about spending.
> but if we cherry pick from the peak of the housing bubble, my side looks great! Just don't look at the following year".
You've repeatedly claimed that there will be a huge difference in spending after this year because the stimulus will be over. That makes a comparision with pre-recession reasonable.
Oh, now I get it, you're claiming that the current deficits are due to spending by the Obama administration?
Can you point out which spending? I'm under the impression that they're structural deficits created by Bush programs and exacerbated by the recession. But if you could point out some large Obama spending plan that passed, I'd change my mind.
This week, we found out that they scored the subsidies based on single people with no kids while the coverage goes to dependents as well, so the subsidies will cost a lot more than predicted.
Every week or so, there's another $100B or so of spending in the bill that we find out about that wasn't scored.
Pelosi was right - we had to pass the bill to know what's in it.
But again, that's silly partisan point scoring and totally beside the point. Pulling one-sided stats with a total lack of intellectual honesty in order to try and claim my side's better.
You're actually arguing here, "but if we cherry pick from the peak of the housing bubble, my side looks great! Just don't look at the following year".
I don't blindly cheer for democrats like they're a football team, I try to objectively evaluate what's going on. If more republican football fans did the same, we might actually have a deficit reduction deal, or a plan to help the jobs situation.
As it is, this is the GOP plan: http://www.theonion.com/articles/new-gop-strategy-involves-r...