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Snovalo said:Uh, Obama didn't pass a budget until 2010, so everything before that was due to Bush. Obama actually has been the most frugal president in recent history, less then bush and reagan.

 


Stop mkaing people actually THINK about what the pretty graphs and charts really mean.  If GDP stagnates (not Obama's fault in any sense of the imagination unless you're blaming him for the entire world's economy) while the Bush tax cuts are still in full effect and the debt grows only slightly, the % compared to GDP balloons, which is what the chart shows.  But when you look at how much actual spending has accelerated, it's a very small number compared to almost everyone.  Here's a link to an article that discusses it.

 http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2012/05/24/who-is-the-smallest-government-spender-since-eisenhower-would-you-believe-its-barack-obama/

 

He's a lefty, but he's writing for Forbes so it sort of balances out a little.  LOL.   But you can see how easy it is to provide a completely opposite picture WITH A GRAPH!!!  Just finding a picture that seems to prove your point, with no context and no analysis behind it proves very little. It just shows how easy it is to be manipulate you.  



Can't we all just get along and play our games in peace?