The congress spends the money, not the potus. Learn your civics.

[spaceguy]

badgenome said:

spaceguy said:

bush never put the wars on the debt, obama put them on. so most of that is still bush, plus bush worked on bailing out the banks as well. So your number are a joke and the 6 trillion is the result of a fool in office.

Uh... wrong. The wars were kept off the budget. This just means that they were dealt with in emergency spending bills. They still showed up in the federal deficits.

Most of the Bush's and GOP policies are still in place. Also tarp was signed in 2008 and was counted under obama. Bush worked on that. This is all GOP policies that got us here. I like how the right always loves to forget this. However It doesn't mean I agree with obama either. I would have never extended the bush tax cuts but the gop was Filabustering, so he had to do something to extend unemployment benefits.