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Think about what you are saying... that a FY 2009 appropriations act is also accounted for in FY 2010 spending. The problem is you are conflating the supposed $31B over the 2008 basline for the 2009 Omnibus with something in 2010. The two have nothing to do with another. The other problem is...

I do not care about rates of change, I was only talking about being honest when others talk about it. What matters are the absolute values. A spree? semantics, I was only trying to put the chart into perspective. When a president adds to medicaid out of discretionary spending and calls it...

Right, so there should never be recessions if it worked. Gov't response is simple, watch GDP, print and spend as appropriate.

Obama tacked on ~410B in extra spending on top of Bush. It was already half way into 2009 when he did it http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/111/hr1105. He could have easily waited until FY2010 for much of it since it was only 6 months away and TARP and other spending had already been...

Isn't that just the rub? If this type of spending were paid back then economic policy would be really simple, just print and spend. This has been tried countless times using the same logic. Integrated over all gov't spending, it never works.

...and sorry to say they are also wrong, FY 2009 was signed by Obama, not Bush. Obama is responsible for what he signed into law. If not then we clearly open the door to assign blame for Reagan's deficits on a democrat congress as they forced him into concessions that deepened the deficit...

Blue horseshoe loves anacott steel

Science just so happens to be the only choice that has been effective in understanding and manipulating the universe. I take it you want your doctor to use the scientific method as opposed to another 'choice' they might happen to like. It's 'place' is that of extreme value to humanity and it is...

Having dealt with academia for over 20 years, I can tell you that all Obama's Harvard degree, especially in law, means is that he isn't functionally retarded. Their physics department is more careful for sure, and these days departments are more important than the university itself in sduch...

read the thread, at least, before you respond

yes because they are human and will always have the enormous capacity for self delusion which is innate to a human For example people believe in diversity even though there is no evidence it works. 'Smart' people think economic egalitarianism is swell idea even though all the evidence is...

The 'facts' were the first casualty of the Nutting garbage and all the subsequent use of it

1. You are not making sense at all while you desperately try and spin this to Obama's favor, try reading the entire thread before posting drivel. On point 2, go for it, but don't spin, we are talking deficits and debt.

I would settle for getting them the ability to read Cat in the Hat, but we would have to make it something they would want to read like "The Cat in the Hat Shat on the Mat" or the classic "Horton Hires a Ho"

1. Get some bifocals old man. The chart in the link on the OP, the one everyone is using, attributes all of FY09 as Bush's budget. The fact is that Obama signed that budget, he is resposnisble for it and it makes all the differerence in the world with those percent changes. It is a gross and...

questions about earning his place at Columbia? there is no question, he's an affirmative action empty suit

1. Marketwatch dishonestly attributed the 2009 stimulus to Bush 2. Rates of change don't mean shit when you are holding at high absolute levels

There is no need to spin anything Ricter, just examine the data and who signed what into law. TARP I was basically low cost (debatable if it was worth it it), TARP II was an auto bailout which has not been paid back. Stimulus and all Obama's other discretionary spending is the point here, the...

they won't take responsibility Nutting would be some isolated nutjob normally, but people like Pelosi, Maddow, and even Obama are now quoting his crap? This is a national tragedy.

No, he inherited a burst tech bubble, that's a fact. He inherited a war with al quaida, that's a fact. He blamed Clinton for neither.