"SteveB" wrote in message
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Bush was in power for almost a decade. Obama has been in power for 3/4 of
a year. It's kind of hard to equate the two in any rational way.

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Would doing the math on the deficit and spending count?

Steve

Sure. They count. It's worth having a discussion about how to pay for what
we need/want. It's actually pretty hard to do the math, since there are so
many different ways of adding things up. In the past, many of the costs were
hidden and/or pulled out of the budget, for example.

It's easy to say, we're running huge deficits and spending tons of money
without examining why and what we might get out of it. For example, if you
want to claim (falsely I believe) that FDR's social programs were not what
got us out of the Depression, then what did? Some say, with some
justification that massive military spending as a prelude to WWII did it.
Yet, it was gov't spending that did it.

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