How much debt did we add under Bush? 5 trillion. Shuffle that dumbass.

Sure Cowboy…the President was just a figurehead…it was all Congress with the power. During Bush's reign, the Republican party and it's national media organs were as strong as they have ever been….everything Bush wanted…he got….if he didn't like a law, he just issued a signing statement.

Completely repeal the Bush tax cuts to the rich….that would be a good idea.
Get out of Iraq…that would be a good idea. Make the banks pay back the bailout money on a schedule…that would be a good idea. Use executive compensation as the benchmark for what they can afford to pay back.

Right now I think the administration is playing it safe trying to see how the economy recovers. If it does, then they should give another tax cut to the middle class and independent workers….that would be a good idea. Then you phase out energy subsidies over the next four years….there is a lot of other stuff….

Tell us what congress and hussein's doubling of the rate of increase of public debt, rate of increase of the money supply, and higher taxes will do to improve the economy or reduce the deficit, much less the national debt? If what President Bush, or more accurately, what the GOP congress did was wrong, how can what the dp congress and hussein are doing be right?

Obama has already helped quadruple the deficit with his stimulus package, pledging to halve it by 2013 is hardly ambitious. The Washington Post has a great graphic which helps put President Obama’s budget deficits in context of President Bush’s.

What’s driving Obama’s unprecedented massive deficits? Spending. Riedl details:

President Bush expanded the federal budget by a historic $700 billion through 2008. President Obama would add another $1 trillion.
President Bush began a string of expensive finan­cial bailouts. President Obama is accelerating that course.
President Bush created a Medicare drug entitle­ment that will cost an estimated $800 billion in its first decade. President Obama has proposed a $634 billion down payment on a new govern­ment health care fund.
President Bush increased federal education spending 58 percent faster than inflation. Presi­dent Obama would double it.
President Bush became the first President to spend 3 percent of GDP on federal antipoverty programs. President Obama has already in­creased this spending by 20 percent.
President Bush tilted the income tax burden more toward upper-income taxpayers. President Obama would continue that trend.

President Bush presided over a $2.5 trillion increase in the public debt through 2008. Setting aside 2009 (for which Presidents Bush and Obama share responsibility for an additional $2.6 trillion in public debt), President Obama’s budget would add $4.9 trillion in public debt from the beginning of 2010 through 2016.

To be fair, his administration also made several attempts to rein in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, to no avail.

However that was then and this is now. We listened to you name call and whine for eight years, so please spare us your complaints. We have genuine concerns now as we did then. Only now, this administration is engaged in an all out power grab the likes of which we've never seen. Either you are happy with that, or, you are so in the tank for Obama, that you can't see it.

Now 450 billion is made to seem like chump change in comparison to trillions more in debt. Their plans for entitlements, and control through the phony “green” agenda is clear to anyone who wishes to see. All a huge grab for power. The attempt to silence any critics big and small lends itself to the description of a thugocracy more in line with a dictatorship of a third world country, not America.

I think you might try being more concerned for your country, than defending policies which will surely harm this nation for generations if left to those of the political persuasion now in the majority in Washington DC.

These are not mainstream Democrats, they are far left radicals, and they have bought and own the Democrat Party. If you yourself are a far left radical my words are wasted. If not you might at least consider that the concerns I spell out here are real, and not mere hyperbole.

It only takes you a couple of paragraphs to turn it into :The spend-crazy policies of the Obama administration have had an especially aggravating effect”

Yeah sure…it's Obama's fault…Bush and the GOP's years in complete control of government are wiped away and now referred to as merely “government”. You guys are simply pathetic…transparent…hacks.

The New World Order may be cliche, but it doesn't matter what you call it. The more power we sign over to the World Bank, IMF, or world court, and international agreements which dilute our sovereignty, the closer we are to becoming bonded to a central world power.

God knows this is not wishful thinking on my part, anything but. It is not anything I would want to be correct about either. I just see it as inevitable based on what has already been done, and what is being planned that we know about. I can only imagine what we don't know about, and I have a feeling none of it is good.

We haven't been the source of other country's lack of prosperity. However, we have been an enabler of socialism for much of the globe.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/10/if_obama...

That is Obama's goal – leveling. That what Obamacare is, lowering the healthcare of 85% of Americans to give to the 15% without insurance even though the 15% is made up of people who don't have insurance for many, varied reasons.

We are weakening ourselves economically and militarily. Obama's vision is coming true.