• President Bush expanded the federal budget by a historic $700 billion through 2008. President Obama would add another $1 trillion.
• President Bush began a string of expensive finan cial bailouts. President Obama is accelerating that course.
• President Bush created a Medicare drug entitle ment that will cost an estimated $800 billion in its first decade.
• President Obama has proposed a $634 billion down payment on a new govern ment health care fund.
• President Bush increased federal education spending 58 percent faster than inflation. President Obama would double it.
• President Bush became the first President to spend 3 percent of GDP on federal antipoverty programs. President Obama has already in creased this spending by 20 percent.
• President Bush presided over a $2.5 trillion increase in the public debt through 2008. Setting aside 2009 (for which Presidents Bush and Obama share responsibility for an additional $2.6 trillion in public debt), President Obama’s budget would add $4.9 trillion in public debt from the beginning of 2010 through 2016.
Obama is Simply BU$H III
{ April 13, 2009 @ 11:13 am } · { bailout, barack obama, freedom, government, politics, socialism }
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futiledemocracy Said:
on April 13, 2009 at 11:24 am
This is the most ridiculous blog entry i’ve read in a very long time.
Half the Republicans are complaining that Obama is a horrible Socialist.
The rest of you are complaining that he’s too much like Bush.
You guys need to get your story straight.
tonedagger Said:
on May 4, 2009 at 11:26 pm
I’m not a republican, but thanks for reading and for commenting. I appreciate it.