Decline and fall of the US.

[hurrican]

TheRealMafoo said:

hurrican said:

So by the end of the bush presidency he was actually spending about the same amount as obama did in his first year.

Thanks for the explanation. However you will find no one on this site more pissed off about what Bush did in his last year then I was. I bitched on here for days about the bailout.

I think it was 700 billion right?  And that is tacked onto Bush's last year. I think that's what Obama is going to spend without bailouts, if I recall.

So while war spending and bailouts can just stop, spending on things like healthcare and other entitlement programs can't. Obama is shifting a lot more of the spending that direction.

That could be true, but imo that what you expect in a recession where millions of people lose their jobs of no fault of their own and have to rely on the government for food stamps, unemployment checks, and cobra healthcare. 

Also using that link you posted if you check the spending on welfare and healthcare, there seems to be a correlation between when there is a recession and when those things jump in spending. I do not know if its a direct cause but its an interesting thing to note that its a bigger then usual jump when there is.