"Come on, stop with the stupid number tricks. The day Bush left office Debt/GDP was 60 something %, a few days ago according to the CBO, it hit 100%. Those are the real numbers."
Nadine, Nadine, Nadine, those are the "stupid number tricks."
You can't take one statistic out of the hat and claim that your number conclusively proves that the large and growing debt problem is on Obama. The economy, the role of government, the politics of debt, the effect of lobbyists, the chamber of commerce impact, international relations, nature driven events, the cost of wars, the effects of bubbles like the tech bubble that helped Clinton and the housing bubble that helped Bush W and then burst and hurt the economy under Obama, unfunded liabilities that persist into the terms of future presidents, the actions of foreign economic powers, unforgiving actuarial facts, the price of oil and other scarce resources, the REFUSAL OF VIRTUALLY EVERY REPUBLICAN TO RAISE TAXES TO PAY FOR WARS, DEFENSE OR DOMESTIC SPENDING WHICH THEY AUTHORIZED, etc., etc. all have an impact.
You want to forget all that, you want to cherry pick one statistic, you want to shift the budgets from Bush to Obama for 2008, in other words, you want to support a political belief but you either can't, or won't, comprehend how intricate the problem is and how many events that are outside of the control of the president are involved in the debt accumulation.
So why waste time trying to discuss this with you when your response is to post silly drivel about one statistic that "the real number"? Ed |
