Z, Obama has barely increased spending! A complete lie. Federal spending went up from $3.1T to $3.8T in the space of four years.
The original Bush budget for FY 2009 was $3.1T. But the final budget was not signed into law until March 2009, two months into Obama's administration. By then the budget ballooned to $3.5T.
Much of that increase, probably about half, was due to ARRA, as Inode already pointed out. That's a program that Obama takes credit for.
Hence Obama is responsible for at least half a trillion dollars in spending increases.
Now I'll wait while you tell me that this is OK because all that FUNNY MONEY went toward feeding the poor, lowering global temperatures, and giving health care to the yearning masses.
And another point, without "the same kind of insanity you see in Washington," we wouldn't have lots of the great stuff we have today. I just spent 30 hours in the last week driving the Interstates. What a system! Road maintenance makes up like what, 2-3% of the federal budget?
Of course, guys like you will cut that first.
Don't you see how the game is played? When budget cuts happen, guess what gets cut first? That's right, the stuff that is MOST VISIBLE to the public. Parks get closed, airport security lines get longer, and even illegal immigrants set to be deported get released.
Politicians make damn sure that the LAST thing that gets cut are their own pet projects, including Obama's biggest pet project, which is ObamaCare.
This is the kind of insanity in Washington that you think is necessary to keep roads and bridges maintained. If anyone is playing dumb, it's you.
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