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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: longnshort who wrote (133601)	5/24/2012 3:58:44 PM
From: chartseer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224718

Now even the muslim indonesian citizen brilliant barry soetoro is quoting nutty.

To: longnshort who wrote (133601)

5/24/2012 4:05:04 PM

From: MJ

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The original comparison was an example of statistical information stated and analyzed wrong.

I saw that and sensed there was an inaccuracy in that chart. Now we have the accurate calculations for the Obama years as compared to the previous years--------let's show that one more time. ----mj

Message #133601 from longnshort at 5/24/2012 3:14:15 PM

The stunning chart that shows the Obama spending binge really happened By James PethokoukisMay 24, 2012, 12:35 pm

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In a column on Tuesday, Rex Nutting of MarketWatch ran some budget numbers and concluded the following:

Almost everyone believes that Obama has presided over a massive increase in federal spending, an “inferno” of spending that threatens our jobs, our businesses and our children’s future. Even Democrats seem to think it’s true. But it didn’t happen. Although there was a big stimulus bill under Obama, federal spending is rising at the slowest pace since Dwight Eisenhower brought the Korean War to an end in the 1950s.

And here is Nutting’s graph:

The shocking, contrarian piece was widely circulated in liberal circles and was even cited on Wednesday by White House spokesman Jay Carney.

But there were a few problems with Nutting’s numbers. Nutting’s methodology assumes spending in the first year of a presidential term should be credited to the previous president. OK, fine. But he attributed a $410 billion spending bill in March of 2009 to George W. Bush even though it was signed by Barack Obama. Nutting also didn’t use inflation adjusted numbers.

But I did both of those and got wildly different results from Nutting, as seen in the chart at the top of this post. (Note: I looked at absolute spending as opposed to the rate of increase.)

My numbers show that spending under the ’10-’13 Obama budgets far outstrips spending by a generation of presidential predecessors. This should not be surprising since spending as a share of GDP under Obama is the highest in U.S. history outside of World War II.

We can disagree about whether all of Obama’s massive spending is a good idea or not. But we can’t factually argue about whether it happened or not. It did.

The Obama spending binge really did happen."