Who increased the debt?

:Snooze :Snooze :Snooze

The President is a dictator in your eyes, right?

Congress is also involved and sometimes the economy is good and sometimes you have national emergenices that need extra spending.

Discounting inflation, FDR outspent all of your examples, but WWII and the Great Depression made it necessary. (But Obama is doing his best to take Roosevelt's title!)

You just have to love how liars use figures.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fac ... _blog.html

Amazing figures. How does this actually explain the fact that we are now at over 14 Trillion Dollars?

I don't sign on often, but every time I do, it appears that the original poster's screen name has changed. Can you explain that for me?

About my screen name. I change it because I get bored with it sometimes.

The last name change was to the name I was being called by Nmysys, since he wouldn't call me by the name I was using. You know Nmysys, I believe.

Anyone on here can change their screen name by going into their profile. Some can't figure it out.

For someone who doesn't sign in often, as you say, I'm surprised you noticed. Perhaps you just don't sign in often under your screen name, Tony.

(Original post edited after I looked up your posting history)

neptunechimney wrote: www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checke...gIQAx40Y6K_blog.html

If the chart were recast to show how much the debt went up as a percentage of GDP, it would look pretty bad for Obama after not even three years in office. In fact, Obama does almost twice as poorly as Reagan — and four times worse than George W. Bush.

Reagan: plus 14.9 percentage points
GHW Bush: plus 7.1 percentage points
Clinton: down 13.4 percentage points
GW Bush: plus 5.6 percentage points
Obama: plus 24.6 percentage points

Yep, apparently it's phony chart that people are passing around on Facebook, according to the left-wing Washington Post.

Wayn-O wrote:

LMAO!!! :rofl rofllol You libs buy into all the lies!!! So lets do math 101 for ya! The debt has gone from about $9.5 trillion when Bush left office to almost $15 trillion now and it will soon be $16+ trillion. On what planet does an increase from 9.5-15 equal 16%. That is close to 60%. You guys are so fricken brainwashed! :bash :bash

That is almost 60% in 2 1/2 years and as the numbers get larger, that is a whole lot harder to do! An increase of 60% on $4 trillion is only adding $2.4 trillion. Adding 60% onto about $10 trillion is $6 trillion. Obama is blowing away the overall numbers. And even though there is no way anyone should hit the same high percentages when the debt gets this big, Obama is finding a way to do it!