IT'S THE REPUBLICANS ECONOMY NOW

The Viking wrote:

So what. I can't tell you how many people I know who had credit ratings north of 725 right before they ran up six figure credit card bills. Just like Bush. Their credit ratings didn't crash until it became obvious they couldn't or wouldn't pay it back. Just like with the Tea Party Republicans in Congress who dangled the country off a cliff over this rather than entertain the idea of a tax hike for the rich.

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mittra303 wrote: http://media.npr.org/assets/img/2011/07/05/cg4e0832d23c98b_custom.jpg?t=1309867317&s=4

We keep blaming George W Bush for so many of the nation's troubles because quite simply, he is to blame. Of the $14.3T debt, he's responsible for almost 1/2 of it (42.66%).

Mitra303, thanks for the sane post and some real clarification.

mittra303 wrote:

We keep blaming George W Bush for so many of the nation's troubles because quite simply, he is to blame. Of the $14.3T debt, he's responsible for almost 1/2 of it (42.66%).

Dang it mittra303, you can't even begin to use facts with some of the folks on this board, they start calling you names and insulting you.... then deflect, deflect, deflect.....

AspenValley wrote:

The Viking wrote:

So what. I can't tell you how many people I know who had credit ratings north of 725 right before they ran up six figure credit card bills. Just like Bush. Their credit ratings didn't crash until it became obvious they couldn't or wouldn't pay it back. Just like with the Tea Party Republicans in Congress who dangled the country off a cliff over this rather than entertain the idea of a tax hike for the rich.

OK, fact time for you again. The debt was only up to $8.3 trillion in 2006 up from $5.6 tillion when Bush took over including 9/11 which cost about $1 trillion to our economy. So in the first 6 years with the Republicans in control of congress and 9/11 and two wars our debt only went up $2.7 trillion. Then it was at $8.3 trillion when the Libs took over all of congress in 2007. Now it is $14.5. That is $6.2 trillion in 4 years under a total Democrat controlled congress. Now in 6 months with 36 Tea Party congressmen in office the Libs want to blame them! They are a joke!

It's for sure at least four of them at this very minute are Googling their little fingers off at all of their right-wing sites to find out how to respond...

a) It doesn't take into account the War of 1812, ... (Did you know Andrew Jackson was a "founding father"?)
b) It doesn't take the current state of the sunspots and "Summer of Love" (1968) in the computations.
c) It doesn't take into account that many of the previous presidents didn't get a chance to meet Grover Norquist... (No doubt, one man that even Will Rogers would not have liked..)
....etc.

netdude wrote:

mittra303 wrote:

We keep blaming George W Bush for so many of the nation's troubles because quite simply, he is to blame. Of the $14.3T debt, he's responsible for almost 1/2 of it (42.66%).

Dang it mittra303, you can't even begin to use facts with some of the folks on this board, they start calling you names and insulting you.... then deflect, deflect, deflect.....

And it proves my point. The majority of that $6.1 trillion whas after 2007 when the Dems took over congress and this is an old chart. obama's number isn't close to right as everyone shows he has $3.7 trillion under him. So the biggest chunk of that all came under Democrat controlled congress. You want to blame the Tea Party and congress now but under Bush you just want to blame the President. Interesting how you guys do that.

The Viking wrote: [ You want to blame the Tea Party and congress now but under Bush you just want to blame the President. Interesting how you guys do that.

You don't even know what people are blaming the Tea Party for, do you?