"War spending had nothing, AT ALL, to do with this. Hell, it was a trillion over 10 years -- that's 100B/year."
Dave, that trillion was out of the $7 trillion that Bush ran up during his tenure. That is a fair fraction. Claiming that it was insignificant is, well, sort of stupid.
The discussion was not about Bush's debt increases. It was about Obama's.
And to suggest that war spending is a significant fraction of Obama's massive deficits is just, well, stupid.
The Obama deficits are a direct result of a big spending, unlimited government mentality. The war spending is a part of it, but if you eliminated the war spending we would STILL be looking at deficits that are far beyond what Bush was running.
In fact, the Left chronically points to the wars and Part D as the cause of the debt increase under Bush, when combined it amounts to something in the area of 1/4 of it, with most of the balance caused by entitlement spending that is out of control (one exception is the $700B TARP program, which due to an accounting anomaly, was charged against Bush and credited to Obama -- essentially, an Obama "freebie" at Bush's expense).
A rational view of Bush vs. Obama debt reflects an unprecedented increase in wasteful government spending under Obama. |
