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? asked in Politics & GovernmentPolitics · 8 years ago

If the almost $3.3 trillion in debt accumulated under Bush was “irresponsible” and “unpatriotic,” is Obama res?

If the almost $3.3 trillion in debt accumulated under Bush was “irresponsible” and “unpatriotic,” Why is Obama responsible and patriotic for adding $6 trillion?

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  • 8 years ago
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    obama is way out of his league being the president. He is incompetent and can't manage anything. He criticized Bush for MANY things that he went on to continue doing, and even more so than Bush ever did.

    The liberals here are cute though trying to offer excuses for obama

  • ?
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    You are a bit low on the number. Two wars, two tax deductions, and an expensive prescription plan totaled out to be 10.626 Trillion put on credit card. Where ever you got your number is not from a reliable source. Go to a govt. website or fact check, or politifact, or any other neutrual website. 3 Trillion....my foot!

  • ?
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    I would think to call him "responsible" or "patriotic" for spending would be a bit much...

    the conditions are obviously different...

    Bush ran up a huge bill when he was handed a balanced budget (or all but, if you want to be a naysayer, it was really close even)...

    Obama received federal revenue spiraling down and expenses spiraling up... in a severe recession...

    you're ignoring the context, which is EXTREMELY DIFFERENT FOR BOTH...

    it's like saying "but you said shooting at someone was bad a year ago"

    and the other person saying... "yeah, a year ago we were sitting on your couch in Texas, and now we're in the middle of a war in Afghanistan... the situation is pretty fundamentally different"

  • 8 years ago

    Because their guy did it. Funny, Reagan fixed Carter's mess without spending six trillion bucks. Obama hasn't fixed sh!t and has in fact made some things a whole lot worse -- and he has spent so much money we don't have that we'll never dig out from under it.

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  • ?
    Lv 5
    8 years ago

    He's not. Ask any liberal "why Obama borrowed trillions to bail out the auto industry which is now failing", and they wont know what to say.

  • 8 years ago

    Haven't you heard? It's racist to believe that Obama is responsible for anything he does.

  • ?
    Lv 6
    8 years ago

    Questions like this completely ignore all of the pertinent facts, including the fact that when Obama said that, we were not in the midst of the worst recession in 3 generations, one that was teetering on depression. Questions like this are nothing but partisan sniping, with no thought behind them.

  • John
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    gwb nearly doubled the debt from $5.7T to $10.6T. That doesn't include the $5.1T he left off of the books for the next admin to find.

  • John
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    0bama is a very bad joke down here.

  • 8 years ago

    Because he has to walk the path that Bush put the country on and he is doing a great job of it!

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