Obama, inaugurated on Jan 21, 2009, can only be held responsible for the budget he wrote and congress passed...but that budget included having to deal with a recession (which started in 2007..Who was President?)...By the time Obama's budget was in effect, the real debt was $12.1 trillion...It is now approx $14.9 trillion...If $14.9 trillion is three times $12.1, you guys need to go take remedial math....
Comparing Reagan and Obama after 25 years is like comparing Jefferson and Lincoln. Totally different issues to deal with and a different world to adjust to. But this was Saint Reagan?? Who also raised taxes 11 times?!?! As well as the debt-ceiling 18 times....However did this empty-suit get a reputation for being a fiscal conservative?
LadyJazzer wrote: Yeah, I'll try to overlook the fact that Reagan raised the debt-ceiling 18 times... And W did it 7 times.... ZZZZzzzzzzzz......
And they all suck because of it. That doesn't make Obama suck any less - it just proves he's one of the many and no different from any other power hungry rat's ass on the hill.
BTW Regan got the conservative label because he was less liberal than most.
Until we see a debt reduction request, we don't really have a conservative running things.
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LadyJazzer wrote: Obama, inaugurated on Jan 21, 2009, can only be held responsible for the budget he wrote and congress passed...but that budget included having to deal with a recession (which started in 2007..Who was President?)...By the time Obama's budget was in effect, the real debt was $12.1 trillion...It is now approx $14.9 trillion...If $14.9 trillion is three times $12.1, you guys need to go take remedial math....
Comparing Reagan and Obama after 25 years is like comparing Jefferson and Lincoln. Totally different issues to deal with and a different world to adjust to. But this was Saint Reagan?? Who also raised taxes 11 times?!?! As well as the debt-ceiling 18 times....However did this empty-suit get a reputation for being a fiscal conservative?
Raised taxes 11 times! Oh no. That could be as minor as a tire exise tax. Plus he wasn't a dictator, he was having to compromise with Tip O'Neill's Congress.
Compromise with Congress? Something that the first Hawaiian President simply can't figure out how to do. Just like some of the trillions of debt under Bush was due to Pelosi and her gang. They are the ones to write the budget.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
