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Playinghardball

(11,665 posts) Wed Sep 19, 2012, 05:35 PM Sep 2012

Remembering Dubya's Record

From about (+)$5.6 trillion to (-) $10 trillion. I ain't a rocket scientist but that's a $15.6 trillion dollar swing... Isn't that the figure that GOPhers are throwing around as all Obama's fault?

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Remembering Dubya's Record (Original Post) Playinghardball Sep 2012 OP

That is true... kentuck Sep 2012 #1

kentuck

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1. That is true...

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Wed Sep 19, 2012, 05:46 PM

Sep 2012

Not only did Bush and the Repubs drive us further into debt ($5 trillion) and demolished a balanced budget and a pay-off of the national debt of another $5.6 trillion plus a $1 trillion dollar deficit handed to this President. Hey! We had a balanced budget as late as 2002.

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