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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums'Obama put on more debt on this country than all the previous presidents combined'
FUCK ME
Pachamama
(16,887 posts)Lies lies lies
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,743 posts)spanone
(135,846 posts)👍🏼
muriel_volestrangler
(101,322 posts)So Trump plans to increase it more, despite Obama having to fix the worst recession in 70 years, and giving Trump a healthy economy.
https://www.thebalance.com/us-debt-by-president-by-dollar-and-percent-3306296
(Up $3.5tn in Obama's last 4 years, when the economy was stable)
Ohiogal
(32,011 posts)He is an idiot
spanone
(135,846 posts)From Politifact
'We rate the statement Mostly False'
Well, at least thats according to a chain e-mail circulating in New Jersey, echoing a claim made to varying degrees by different Republican officials in recent years. With the subject line "A picture is worth 1,000 words," the chain e-mail features a graphic to make its case.
Above pictures of Presidents George Washington and George W. Bush, one side of the graphic reads "Debt Added By The Previous 43 U.S. PRESIDENTS COMBINED --- 1789 through 2008." Beneath the presidents photos is "$6.3 TRILLION DOLLARS."
On the other side of the graphic is a photo of a smiling Obama, beneath the words "Debt Added By PRESIDENT OBAMA --- One Term!" The amount listed below the photo is "$6.5 TRILLION DOLLARS."
https://www.politifact.com/new-jersey/statements/2012/may/04/chain-email/obama-has-added-more-national-debt-previous-43-pre/
Ohiogal
(32,011 posts)blathering about adding to the national debt! When hes the King of debt!
Bengus81
(6,931 posts)Along with bank failures each Friday by the dozens,huge auto makers on the verge of BK,Wall St SCAMS galore and a housing market in the dumpster. Hell,it's a wonder he only had to spend that much to turn that Bush DISASTER around. Funny how NO Republicans ever walk into messes like that.
Funny how this is an issue....oh wait,Donnie is running up the ND like a drunken sailor despite inheriting a stable economy and a 4.7% unemployment rate.
Look no further than what our new Dem Gov in Kansas has to deal with. Brokeback ran this State a BILLION in debt over zero % tax rates for Corporations for years before it was repealed. She's got a long road to clean up THIS mess.
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Elwood P Dowd
(11,443 posts)War in Iraq, war in Afghanistan, Medicare Drug Plan, 2007-2009 economic disaster caused by Bush Jr, massive tax breaks by Bush Jr, bailouts during recession, etc, etc..