I'm Sick of "Inherited" Here's the scoop on what Obama inherited.
The Lap-Dog Washington Post babbled again today about Obama
inheriting a huge deficit from Bush, blah blah blah. Amazingly enough, a
lot of people swallow this nonsense.
So once more, I'll try a short civics lesson.
Budgets do not come from the White House. They come from Congress, and
the party that controlled Congress since January 2007 is the Democratic
Party. They controlled the budget process for FY 2008 and FY 2009, as well
as FY 2010 and FY 2011.
In that first year, they had to contend with George Bush, which caused
them to compromise on spending, when Bush, somewhat belatedly, got tough on
spending increases. For FY 2009, though, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid
bypassed George Bush entirely, passing continuing resolutions to keep
government running until Barack Obama could take office.
At that time, they passed a massive omnibus spending bill to complete the
FY 2009 budgets. And where was Barack Obama during this time? He was a
member of that very Congress that passed all of these massive spending
bills, and he signed the omnibus bill as President to complete FY 2009.
Let's remember what the deficits looked like during that period:
If the Democrats inherited any deficit, it was the FY 2007 deficit,
the last of the Republican budgets. That deficit was the
lowest in five years, and the fourth straight decline in deficit spending.
After that, Democrats in Congress took control of spending, and that
includes Barack Obama, who voted for the budgets. If Obama inherited
anything, he inherited it from himself.
In a nutshell, what Obama is saying is I inherited a deficit that I voted
for and then I voted to expand that deficit four-fold since January 20th.
WAKE UP AMERICA ... BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE.
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