Toddsterpatriot
Diamond Member
He spent like a mutha fucka.....added moronic regulations.
Tried his hardest to cripple our economy.
Would have over-spent and over-regulated, even more, if the voters hadn't spanked him in 2010.
We're resilient. We outlasted him.
Your inability to point to specific laws and policies noted Bubs
May 22, 2012
Obama spending binge never happened
Government outlays rising at slowest pace since 1950s
Obama spending binge never happened
Charts: What if Obama spent like Reagan?
January 31, 2013
In 10 of the past 12 quarters, total government spending and investment has fallen, dragging down the Obama economy.
....Or, to put it differently, over Obama's first term, falling government spending and investment snipped, on average, .11 percentage points of GDP off of (annualized) quarterly growth. During Reagan's first term, it added .68 percentage points, and during Bush's first term, it added .52 percentage points.
...The point isn't that Reagan and Bush were big spenders while Obama favors austerity. If it were up to Obama, the federal government would have spent much more since 2010.
Moreover, these numbers are, in large part, functions of the economies the three men inherited. Each saw a recession in their first term, but Obama's was by far the worst, and so it led to much more severe cutbacks in state and local spending.
Rather, these graphs simply establish a basic fact about Obama's term: While deficits have indeed been high, government spending and investment has been falling since 2010. This is, in recent presidential administrations, a simply unprecedented response to a recession.
Just for fun, I took Obama's GDP growth, netted out the effect of government spending and investment, and then added the total government spending and investment numbers — which include state and local government — from Reagan's first term. The result is a significantly better economy, with growth since 2010 averaging 3.2 percent rather than 2.4 percent.
Charts: What if Obama spent like Reagan?
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Obama spending binge never happened
Sure it did. It's right there in 2009.
The Treasury spent at least $560 billion on TARP by October 2009, plus all the "stimulus" spending.
Subtract out the TARP spending in 2008/2009, and then add it back into the spending in 2010 and 2011, as it was repaid, to get a truer look at Obama's spending binge.
REALLY? BY OCT 2009? LINKIE?
TARP? OH RIGHT DUBYA'S THING
Jan 7, 2009
$1.2 trillion deficit looms
The U.S. budget deficit in 2009 is projected to spike to a record $1.2 trillion, or 8.3% of gross domestic product, the Congressional Budget Office said Wednesday.
CBO projects record $1.2 trillion deficit - Jan. 7, 2009
BUT AFTER 8 YEARS OF DUBYA/GOP "JOB CREATOR" POLICIES SOMEONE HAD TO KEEP US FROM GOING INTO THE SECOND GOP GREAT DEPRESSION BUBBA!
TARP? Oh right because Dubya had 7 years of "don't need no stinking regulators on the beat" BS going on as he cheered on the Banksters bubble![]()
REALLY? BY OCT 2009? LINKIE?
Bailout Timeline: Another Day, Another Bailout | Eye on the Bailout | ProPublica
TARP? OH RIGHT DUBYA'S THING
Yup.
So by the end of Dubya's final F/Y budget they spent half of Dubya's TARP money he authorized? So the other half was "credited" to Obama???
The Treasury spent at least $560 billion on TARP by October 2009....DERP.