Decline and fall of the US.

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TheRealMafoo said:

darklich13 said:

TheRealMafoo said:

zgamer5 said:

wow i never thought that the bush administration was that bad.

http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/downchart_gs.php?year=2000_2010&view=1&expand=&units=p&fy=fy11&chart=G0-fed&bar=0&stack=1&size=m&title=US Federal Deficit As Percent Of GDP&state=US&color=c&local=s

Bush was nothing compared to the new guy.

Yes but Bush failed to add the cost of two wars to the Deficit.  When Obama took office he added the cost of the two wars to the Deficit. 

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/02/weighing-the-ir/

The chart I linked was government spending. Nothing to do with a budget. The wars are included in Bush's spending, just not in his budget.

You have a funny idea of how the spending budget and debt work then. Emergency war fund spending which Bush used is not part of the budget which is how debt is calculated on a yearly basis. That money is put straight into the debt and is not reported. If you look at those years when bush was in power the federal deficit and total amount of debt are not the same. In fact the differences were usually around 500 billion which is about how much each of the emergency war fund was.

So no the wars were not included in the budget or the yearly federal deficit and your link only shows the budget deficit. and not the total federal spending.