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<blockquote data-quote="The Other Side" data-source="post: 966057" data-attributes="member: 17969">Umm, Presidents dont make bills, thats the job of the congress and senate.&nbsp; That aside, you still fall for the same play on words from the right wing.&nbsp; Lets examine your &quot;truth&quot;.GW BUSH left office in January 2009 with a deficit of 10.7 trillion dollars.&nbsp; Lets round it to 11 trillion for easy math.&nbsp; Obama has spent 5.7 trillion so far, but lets round that to 6 trilion.11 trillion Bush-6 trillion Obama&nbsp;5 trillion more spent than OBAMA.&nbsp; So if 11 trillion is higher than 6 trillion, how can OBAMA have spent more than all the presidents before him combined?Obviously, that makes ZERO sense, but it works for the those who want to repeat such a thing.&nbsp; The reality of the debt, is that the &quot;new&quot; total of debt exceeds all previous presidents combined, but that includes the 11 trillion dollars BUSH contributed to it.Reagan alone left 3.7 trillion dollars in unpaid national debt in 8 years after spending 3 dollars for every 1 dollars he took in.&nbsp; This fact alone disproves your statement.&quot;It&#039;s just that Obama&#039;s add up to all the others combined&quot;Its this kind of political misinformation is the reason arguments are started.&nbsp;&nbsp; Indeed, 16 trillion dollars is more than all the previous presidents combined, but lets keep it real and say it like that.To exaggerate the debt claims doesnt contribute any truth to a discussion.PeAce.TOS</blockquote>

[QUOTE="The Other Side, post: 966057, member: 17969"] Umm, Presidents dont make bills, thats the job of the congress and senate. That aside, you still fall for the same play on words from the right wing. Lets examine your "truth". GW BUSH left office in January 2009 with a deficit of 10.7 trillion dollars. Lets round it to 11 trillion for easy math. Obama has spent 5.7 trillion so far, but lets round that to 6 trilion. 11 trillion Bush [U]-6 trillion[/U] Obama 5 trillion more spent than OBAMA. So if 11 trillion is higher than 6 trillion, how can OBAMA have spent more than all the presidents before him combined? Obviously, that makes ZERO sense, but it works for the those who want to repeat such a thing. The reality of the debt, is that the "new" total of debt exceeds all previous presidents combined, but that includes the 11 trillion dollars BUSH contributed to it. Reagan alone left 3.7 trillion dollars in unpaid national debt in 8 years after spending 3 dollars for every 1 dollars he took in. This fact alone disproves your statement."I[B]t's just that Obama's add up to all the others combined"[/B] Its this kind of political misinformation is the reason arguments are started. Indeed, 16 trillion dollars is more than all the previous presidents combined, but lets keep it real and say it like that. To exaggerate the debt claims doesnt contribute any truth to a discussion. PeAce. TOS [/QUOTE]

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