They were fact checking what other people were using as their parameters...which was the first day the president was sworn in.... not the U.S. Fiscal Budget Years.no, not at all, just different time periods....Fiscal years vs Annual years... Fiscal Years, are the years each president is fiscally responsible for, during their terms....they represent the years each President turns over Budgets to Congress, by Law.My figures are FISCAL years of responsibility.... the first Bush budget began October 1 2001, for fiscal year 2002...this was his first budget that he had to turn over to congress giving them his priorities.FYI
Bush added $5.9 trillion to the National Debt in his 8 fiscal budget years of responsibility
Well now, FactCheck seems to have different numbers than yours. Sorry the article is a bit dated:
That’s a huge increase to be sure — 44.5 percent. And the Congressional Budget Office now projects that it will grow to more than $16 trillion by the end of the current fiscal year on Sept. 30. At that point, the debt will have increased by more dollars in Obama’s first four years than it did in George W. Bush’s entire eight-year tenure, when it rose by $4.9 trillion. The rise under Obama would then be the biggest dollar increase for any president in U.S. history.
Dueling Debt Deceptions
Fiscal 2002 thru fiscal year 2009, was Bush's 8 years of responsibility as President. (Fiscal year 2001 was Clinton's and began October 1, 2000)
I see. So what you're saying is that you are right and FactCheck is wrong.
NO incoming president is fiscally responsible for a Budget they didn't turn in to Congress, nor ever on the first day they step foot in the white house....how could they be?, as NO CEO is responsible for the sales or debt a company accrues the day they took the job....all are given 6 months to a year, to see their results of budgets and goals and policies etc, to take foot.
And you don't think FactCheck people knew that before they did the calculations and posted this on their site?