Obama Shatters Spending Record for First-Year Presidents!

[andymays]

Obama Shatters Spending Record for First-Year Presidents

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/11/24/obama-shatters-spending-record-year-presidents/

Excerpt:

The federal government spent $3.5 trillion during President Obama's first year in office. This far exceeds the spending for any other first-year president.

[OTM Al]

Just to be acurate here, the President no matter who he is, does not do the spending. All fiscal matters in the United States are the responsibility of Congress. So it is acurate to say that Congress spent more money in Mr. Obama's first year than the first year of any other president, but not that he spent it. Of course most people seem to believe whatever they hear on TV, so I guess this must be true.....

[prospector]

i heard one of his robots on the business channel this morning...its still bush's fault for spending clintons surplus (the one that came from taxes)...seems to have forgot about 9/11 and the costs that came with it..

[Tom]

Funny how it was Bush doing the spend the last 8 years.
Now suddenly it changes.
Bush's tax cuts, but congress wrote the bill....
Bush senior lied and raised taxes, but now it not the prez anymore.

mmmm mmmm mmmm.


How about a generality - scum sucking democrats have sold the country. :cool:

And let us all pay heed, no one can blame Bush for TARP or starting all of this any longer.

[Greyfox]

The $ has been spent, but where has it gone. Fraudulent projects?

See Stephen Spruiell's article on:

Seven Big Lies about the Stimulus
The difference between 450 jobs and six.

By Stephen Spruiell

There have been dozens of news reports exposing tens of thousands of stimulus jobs as frauds — David Freddoso and Mark Hemingway of the Washington Examiner put (http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/stimulus-job-inflation-70198487.html) the number of phony jobs at about 75,000. They found more than 100 separate incidents, but these incidents can be grouped into seven categories, representing the seven biggest lies the administration is telling you about the stimulus:

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZDBmNmY5Y2IxY2VhNWJiNTY2OWQ0NjExZGYwNWY1NDA=