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To: koan who wrote (48719)	7/16/2013 1:32:02 AM
From: i-node	1 Recommendation Recommended By TimF Respond to of 85487

>> It’s that simple: With no Bush income tax cuts, no unfunded Medicare drug benefit, and no off-budget Iraq and Afghanistan wars, the U.S. balance sheet would have been in fine shape for his successor. Seriously? This nonsense has been debunked time and time and time again. And now, years later, here you are recycling it.

To: koan who wrote (48719)	7/16/2013 6:46:40 AM
From: TimF	Respond to of 85487

and no off-budget Iraq and Afghanistan wars There were no off-budget wars. See my last post in this conversation. and the GOP Congress that gave him everything he wanted from 2001 to 2007 and the spending and deficits increased after it became a Dem congress. should be held responsible for the entire $10.6 trillion national debt Nonsense. The deficit increased by a huge amount after the Democrats took control of congress, and then by more after Obama took over as president. Also the national debt was not zero when Bush became president, and has continued to grow after he left. As for the increase in the deficit and the debt that did occur under Bush, its mostly from an increase in social spending, since that is the category of spending with over half the total of extra dollars spent under Bush, and also the area where the majority of the money was spent.