To: tejek who wrote (104835 ) 11/26/2011 10:29:22 PM From: puborectalis Read Replies (1) | Respond to GOP Leaders Voted For Three Of The Biggest Debt Drivers, Costing $3.4 Trillion By Alex Seitz-Wald on Jul 26, 2011 at 11:30 amlargest spending binge in American history,” as Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) said in remarks following the president’s. “[T]he President and his party continued to make demands which we cannot meet,” House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) said yesterday, adding that Obama is demanding “ a blank check to keep spending.”all voted for some of the biggest contributors to the debt — the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Bush tax cuts, and President Bush’s Medicare prescription drug plan — which helped to double the debt over the past decade:these initiatives added $3.4 trillion to the nation’s accumulated debt and to its current annual budget deficit of $1.5 trillion . [...]If there had been no Barack Obama, we would still be bumping up against the debt limit .’”shows the wars have cost $1.3 trillion since 9/11, the Bush tax cuts cost $1.7 trillion in lost revenue over a decade, and Medicare Part D costs $369 billion over a decade. The recession has also been a major contributor to the debt .
