Resolved Question: You know how the claimed "500 billion" Budget Deficit figure for Bush's last year was reached?

10 March 2010, 4:08 am

YOU GUESSED IT - claiming all Social Security payments as tax revenues! His real Deficit was easily a trillion dollars - especially when you figure in his under the table spending on the War and Medicare part D. i.e., Obama didn't triple or even double the Deficit. It went from 1 trillion to 1.6 trillion in reality. You guys and Fox TV always say "Clinton balanced the budget using Social Security" when Reagan and Bush did exactly the same thing. Fox usually leaves that part out. The reason Obama's Deficit has gone up is BECAUSE he has put the cost of the War and Medicare Part D on the table. By himself he's barely raised spending at all, other than the stimulus which was necessary due to things that happened BEFORE HE WAS IN OFFICE!... Read More »

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