During his press conference last evening, when question about the dramatic increases in debt and deficit that his budget shows, President Obama again lashed out with, “I inherited this mess.”
The Washington Post has put together a graph showing deficits under Bush and the proposed deficits under Obama. As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words:
I think it’s fair to cut Obama some slack on ’09. The deficit in this year was started by President Bush. That said, there was not one decision on the extraordinary monies spend that Obama was not involved with either through direct consultation or via his vote as a Senator. That said, there’s no question that every dollar past ’09 is all Obama, all the time. There is also not doubt that every year of Obama’s projected budget has a higher deficit than ANYTHING President Bush had.
Before you get into “this is a true comparison” or “Bush didn’t show Iraq”, go read the Heritage.org piece. As they say in the commercial, “Prego, it’s all in there!”
