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The cost of
"CHANGE"

The American taxpayer now is paying the price for the "Change" they voted for.

We're at almost 10% unemployment nation wide. Our banks, automobile, airline, and real estate markets are crumbling before our eyes.

Foreclosures, bankruptcies, lay-off's and crime levels are rising like never before with no end in sight.

This is the price we pay for voting for a president who for 20 years attended a church that preached hate America, and has been running around with a domestic communist since age 11.

And he's not even a natural born US citizen willing to show us his records?

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creeksneakers2 8 months ago
It's all Bush's fault. Only 6% of the population is strange enough to blame Obama for something that started before he took office.

Things will get better soon. Then what will the right say?
henri.tenthorey 8 months ago
The Rasmussen poll taken last week says 90% of Americans are now worried that Obamas Bailout's will have little to no affect on bettering the economy.
That’s 3 times the defict of Bush's 8 years in less than one year.
But having said that...Bush was no good for America either.
Both parties have screwed the taxpayers!
jordan.applewhite 8 months ago
There is no clear policy suggestion in this post. Flagged for removal (Inappropriate/Duplication).
creeksneakers2 8 months ago
The debt on January 20, 2001 when Bush took office was, $5,727,776,739,304.64. On Bush's last full day, January 19, 2009, the debt was $10,628,881,485,510.23
The debt rose $4,901,104,746,205.59. Obama took over on January 20,2009. The debt then was $10,626,877,048,913.08. Today, June 24, 2009 the debt is $11,407,973,761,151.02. So far, Obama has overseen a debt increase of $781,096,712,237.94. So, Obama hasn't done anything like tripling the deficit under Bush in one year. There's more of this year to come, but Obama's numbers still won't reach Bush's, let alone triple them. So far, Obama's deficit is 16%of Bush's so far. And Obama was left with Bush's mess.

NOTE*** The GOP has peddled falsehoods like the tripling myth. The biggest way they are fooling people is by using numbers from fiscal years and telling people they apply to calendar year. The last fiscal year was over September 30, 2008. Bush still had almost four months left to serve. And those four months are when the big bailouts came. Republicans take all Bush rang up and fraudulently put it in Obama's column.

You've got to watch the GOPers. They lie all the time.

http://www.treasurydirect.gov/NP/BPDLogin?application=np
Big Rooster 8 months ago
It's March 20,2009 and Obama has spent around $2,600,000,000,000 dollars so far. This is what he has spent it on:
1.2T on Bailout

.8T on TARP

.6T on Budget

This doesn't include the war budget either...all of this in 6 months...wait theres more...we didn't add in health care reform so we can add that on when it happens too.

He said "we are out of money now" but yet he just keeps on spending it. What would you say if your spouse did that to your check book. But ya'll scared to sound racist so you say and do nothing...ya'll cowards.

Ya'll can't get your math right and you still try to compare him to Bush? WTF is wrong with ya'll...Obama has and will continue to spend way beyond what Bush did and less to show for it...higher energy cost...weaker militery defence...inflation running rampant...greater loss of jobs and more illegals rushing over the borders because he cares more about a vote to keep him in power than he does the people that built this country.

He is spending our money at this pace people...does it look like he cares about any one of us at all? He won't miss a meal no matter what happens, and as long as he is in power he never will.

How can you compare Bush to Obama? What has Obama changed that amounts to a damn hill of beans...nothing...and he won't either...so don't hold your breath...well...go ahead and hold your breath...it would work out better for all of us.
creeksneakers2 8 months ago
I don't know where Rooster gets his numbers. Probably from some kooks site on the Internet, like World Net Daily.

Here are the real numbers from CBO for March. They cover the first half of fiscal year 2009, most of which was under Bush.

Total spending was 1.9T for six months, not the 2.6T Rooster thinks happened in two months.

TARP was passed under GW Bush. (supported by Obama)
By the end of March, $290B was spent on TARP, not the .8T Rooster imagines.

Obama's big spending package, the stimulus bill, spreads spending over three years. So little of it was spent by March 2009. The stimulus package included $82 billion in tax cuts, which the GOP pretends didn't happen under Democrats.

Revenues were off $160 billion in the first half of FY 2009, so not all of the increased deficit is due to spending.

The $1.2T Rooster calls bailout is probably the money Republicans think the Fed is printing. Here's what really happened. As trouble struck the banks, their reserves fell. Federal law mandates banks to hold a certain amount of cash in reserve. The reserve requirement could have caused a collapse of the banking system. So the Federal Reserve lent the banks money. Not paper money, but a credit to the accounts banks held with the Federal Reserve to guarantee their solvency. So the money never left the Federal Reserve. So long as the banks remain solvent, the computer adjustments will disappear, and all will go back to normal. The downside is, we've allowed banks to take greater risks. But we haven't spent $1.2T on bailouts.

Its best to read official sources and not get information from kook websites like World Net Daily.

http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/100xx/doc10069/04-06-mbr.htm

Also see: http://www.usdebtclock.org/
Big Rooster 8 months ago
I'll give ya back half of the TARP fund...big deal.

The rest of it is debt incurred while Obama has been in the white house. Google it any way you want. GO ahead and check what debt he has incurred since he took office.
I have never thought much of your opinion on anything.

You sure do use "probably" quite a bit...you might want to think about why.

You are an idiot.
creeksneakers2 8 months ago
You don't have to think much of my opinion. I supply links. You can see and decide for yourself. If I'm the one who is an idiot, how come you always turn out to be the one that's wrong?
Big Rooster 8 months ago
What ever SHlT for brains. You have yet to be right about anything...everybody on here knows what an idiot you are.

I see that you forgot about that retarded answer the other night...it went some thing like..."well maybe they didn't want you to see it...the less you know the better off we are" or something like that...that was right after you made a claim to have sent an e-mail t to Hawaii and asked about the BC...remember that you monkey assed liar?
apugh96 8 months ago
Creek, the right will tell you to wake up and Obama to step down. Bush WAS bad but Obama isn't a savior. He has magnified the problems not cause them to diminish. The country as we knew it won't recover if things keep going this way.
creeksneakers2 8 months ago
apugh: I agree. We are spending too much. Something has to give.
Big Rooster 8 months ago
All these figures are checked using Official US Treasury data:
http://www.treasurydirect.gov/NP/BPDLogi...


George W Bush increased the national debt by about $5 Trillion in his eight years in office to $10,626,877,048,913.08 - a rate of about $52 Billion a month.

According to the Treasury stats, Obama has managed to raise the national debt from $10,626,877,048,913.08 on 1/20/09 to the most recent figure taken on 5/22/09, which is $11,301,675,926,828.94

Obama has increased the National Debt almost $700 Billion since coming into office - an average of $175 Billion a month.

If Obama is in office for 8 years, and this trend continues, we are looking at a National Debt increase of $16 - $17 Trillion above the levels of January 20, 2009 ($172 Billion x 96 months in office = $16,800 Billion = $16.8 Trillion).
Big Rooster 8 months ago
And those figures are not including the current BS that is being added...those figures are old...it just keeps getting worse.
creeksneakers2 8 months ago
Much better research Rooster! I agree, Something has to give.
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