December 3, 2010 at 3:53 pm
#709641
JoB
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GaryGnu42…
yes.. the deficit has increased by 2.3 trillion since Obama took office…
but.. a great deal of that increase is due to the financial bailout that Bush instituted and the war that he started… not to social programs as advertised by the far right.
President Bush started with a 5.6 trillion dollar debt.. ended at 10.7.
5 trillion in 8 years…
but he was following a very strong republican tradition..
Clinton on the other hand..
was able to reduce the deficit by the end of his 8 years…
I wonder how he did that?