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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe deficit: Bush vs Obama in one graph by the Washington Post
Whats also important, but not evident, on this chart is that Obamas major expenses were temporary the stimulus is over now while Bushs were, effectively, recurring. The Bush tax cuts didnt just lower revenue for 10 years. Its clear now that they lowered it indefinitely, which means this chart is understating their true cost. Similarly, the Medicare drug benefit is costing money on perpetuity, not just for two or three years. And Boehner, Ryan and others voted for these laws and, in some cases, helped to craft and pass them.
To relate this specifically to the debt-ceiling debate, were not raising the debt ceiling because of the new policies passed in the past two years. Were raising the debt ceiling because of the accumulated effect of policies passed in recent decades, many of them under Republicans. Its convenient for whichever side isnt in power, or wasnt recently in power, to blame the debt ceiling on the other party. But it isnt true.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/obamas-and-bushs-effect-on-the-deficit-in-one-graph/2011/07/25/gIQAELOrYI_blog.html?fb_ref=NetworkNews
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The deficit: Bush vs Obama in one graph by the Washington Post (Original Post)
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Jul 2012
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elleng
(131,143 posts)1. It good, but its just in the Washington Post.
This is by Ezra Klein, one of our favorite Nerds! (Or geeks???)
To what extent is this stuff picked up/spread around/syndicated, like in Florida? Virginia? (other than NoVa, essentially DC suburb,) Pennsylvania? Ohio?
emulatorloo
(44,187 posts)3. Unlikely. Wouldn't want to confuse voters with the facts
plus it is easier just to print Republican talking points.
kentuck
(111,110 posts)2. This is contrary to what 90% of Americans think.
If there was someway to get this message and this graph to them, it could actually change a lot of voters minds, imo...
RC
(25,592 posts)4. That is because the Republicans have added everything under the Bush column to Obama's column.
Give the graphic to our liberal news media.... Oh, wait, we have to have one first. And we don't.
Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)5. Well, you'll never see this graph on Fox "News",
and it will never be discussed on Hate Radio, so Repuke voters will never know of its existence