Awaken America !
"B-b-b-but it's his fault ... he started it"
The Washington Post babbled again today about Obama inheriting
a huge deficit from Bush. Amazingly enough, a lot of people swallow this
nonsense.
So once more, _a short civics lesson.
Budgets do not come from the White House. They come from Congress
and the party that controlled Congress since January 2007 _is the
Democratic Party_.
Furthermore, the Democrats controlled the budget process for FY
2008 and FY 2009 as well as FY 2010 and FY 2011.
In that first year, they had to contend with George Bush, which
caused them to compromise on spending, when Bush somewhat belatedly
got tough on spending increases.
For FY 2009 though, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid bypassed George
Bush entirely, passing continuing resolutions to keep
government running until Barack Obama could take office. At that
time, they passed a massive omnibus spending bill to complete the FY
2009 budgets.
And where was Barack Obama during this time? He was a member of
that very Congress that passed all of these massive spending bills,
and he signed the omnibus bill as President to complete FY 2009.
Let's remember what the deficits looked like during that
period
below)
If the Democrats inherited any deficit, it was the FY 2007
deficit, the last of the Republican budgets. That deficit was the
lowest in five years, and the fourth straight decline in deficit
spending. After that, Democrats in Congress took control of
spending, and that includes Barack Obama, who voted for the budgets.
If Obama inherited anything, he inherited it from himself..
In a nutshell, what Obama is saying is I inherited a
deficit that I voted for and then I voted to expand that deficit
four-fold since January 20th.
There is no way this will be widely publicized,Unless each of us
sends it on! This is your chance to make a difference.
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