| BenVTrigger said: I mean fact in its simplest terms Bong Lover. Any way you look at it Obama has already spent more than any president in US history bar none. The federal govt expenditure under his administration has averaged 3.5 trillion a year in comparison to "big bad evil bushs" 2.5 trillion. And by no means am i a Bush lover but people who attack Bush and defend Obama are flat out hilarious |
So by indicating that Obama has spent more than any other president you really mean that the federal budget in raw dollars is the largest it ever has been. Why not just say that instead of using the kind of convulted language that is designed only to give the false perseption that federal spending has ballooned under Obama?
Ofcourse, the problem with this kind of extremely shallow thinking is that these numbers are not even adjusted for inflation. And if you did adjust for inflation public spending would still be very high in raw dollars, but then you get into spending as a percentage of the GNP and the picture becomes quite different.
It is also a 'fact' that the biggest expensions of the public sector in the past 30 years were overseen in ranking order by: Ronald Reagan 1st term, Gorge Bush Jr 2nd term, George Bush Jr 3rd term. If you go by this metric, expension of the public sector, Obama is the president since the 1980's that has expended the government the least, and by a significant margin as well.
I agree that there's ample room for being critical of Obama, but to peg him as a high spending president is ridicolous. Especially coming from the right, who to a man pitch a tent over Ronald Reagan; the mother of reckless spending.
