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Originally posted by PvtHudson
Originally posted by muse7
Lmao Bush was given multiple warnings that terrorists were going to attack the WTC yet he did nothing about it, and he went on to serve 8 years.
Lies, lies lies. Bush was NEVER warned the WTC was going to be attacked.
Originally posted by NoJoker13
reply to post by longlostbrother
Yeah only a Republican would take Beck's word over Forbes. I'm happy to support the lowest spending president in the last 30 years. Obama 2012.
Originally posted by TTAA2012
Originally posted by NoJoker13
reply to post by longlostbrother
Yeah only a Republican would take Beck's word over Forbes. I'm happy to support the lowest spending president in the last 30 years. Obama 2012.
Are you high?
President Obama: The Biggest Government Spender In World History
In fiscal 2010 (the first Obama budget) spending fell 1.8% to $3.46 trillion.
In fiscal 2011, spending rose 4.3% to $3.60 trillion.
In fiscal 2012, spending is set to rise 0.7% to $3.63 trillion, according to the Congressional Budget Office’s estimate of the budget that was agreed to last August.
Finally in fiscal 2013 — the final budget of Obama’s term — spending is scheduled to fall 1.3% to $3.58 trillion
Originally posted by NoJoker13
reply to post by TTAA2012
Fact check on yours: www.factcheck.org...
Originally posted by TTAA2012
Originally posted by NoJoker13
reply to post by TTAA2012
Fact check on yours: www.factcheck.org...
Total US Debt in 2008 - 10 Trillion
Current US Debt 4 years Later - 16.25 Trillion
And it's expanding exponentially, a fact that is NOT a writer's opinion.
(Good rebuttal BTW.)
WASHINGTON -- A senior intelligence official has issued a new timeline for the events surrounding the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, indicating a series of tragic miscalculations that left CIA officers exposed at an annex near the consulate -- but no evidence of interference from Washington or of the CIA witholding aid from the State Department, as Republican critics have alleged.
According to the timeline, CIA officials in Libya sent a security team to the consulate within 25 minutes of the report of the attack, and the U.S. military sent an unarmed drone to provide intelligence information.
Originally posted by longlostbrother
reply to post by TTAA2012
AND BTW:
Only about 4 trillion of that is under Obama... remember, the budget runs from 2010-2012 at this point.
So you need to go back and add another 2 trillion to Bush's total...
And hey guess what, under George W, from 2008-2010 (his last three budgets) the debt went from 10 to 13.5 trillion.
3.5 trillion in three years.
So, in the same amount of time the deficit has only increased by about half a trillion more under Obama, and the budgets have been on total smaller.
www.treasurydirect.gov...
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Originally posted by MrInquisitive
Originally posted by bobs_uruncle
Originally posted by Propulsion
If it’s true and the ambassador was selling arms that are being used against us, this opens up a whole new can of worms!
Originally posted by PunchingBag80
I'd like to see what comes of this...
There is at least one precident I know of personally (one where I saw the waybills, know the people in the meeting and where the meeting took place to "ink" the sale) for this kind of "behavior" where a US ambassador was selling or organizing arms sales and that was Saddam in Iraq in 1988, for the invasion of Kuwait. The whole thing was set up by the US state department. This was initially setup in the Clinton days (democrat) and then carried forward by Bush Sr., so continuity between parties exists and that means neither president was actually in control, it was someone higher.
Cheers - Dave
Thanks for making it patently clear that you don't know what you are talking about. Bush Sr. was president from 1988-1992, and Clinton from 1992-2000. So Clinton didn't start arming Sadam and Iraq, and then have it followed up by Bush Sr.
Originally posted by observer
Originally posted by MrInquisitive
Originally posted by bobs_uruncle
Originally posted by Propulsion
If it’s true and the ambassador was selling arms that are being used against us, this opens up a whole new can of worms!
Originally posted by PunchingBag80
I'd like to see what comes of this...
There is at least one precident I know of personally (one where I saw the waybills, know the people in the meeting and where the meeting took place to "ink" the sale) for this kind of "behavior" where a US ambassador was selling or organizing arms sales and that was Saddam in Iraq in 1988, for the invasion of Kuwait. The whole thing was set up by the US state department. This was initially setup in the Clinton days (democrat) and then carried forward by Bush Sr., so continuity between parties exists and that means neither president was actually in control, it was someone higher.
Cheers - Dave
Thanks for making it patently clear that you don't know what you are talking about. Bush Sr. was president from 1988-1992, and Clinton from 1992-2000. So Clinton didn't start arming Sadam and Iraq, and then have it followed up by Bush Sr.
Let us remember who helped Saddam arm himself with chem/bio weapons shall we? It was actually... Rumsfeld! Working as an envoy for Reagan.
Link to DailyMail
Originally posted by TTAA2012
Originally posted by longlostbrother
reply to post by TTAA2012
AND BTW:
Only about 4 trillion of that is under Obama... remember, the budget runs from 2010-2012 at this point.
"Only" 4 Trillion added to the deficit? What happened to cutting it?
So you need to go back and add another 2 trillion to Bush's total...
And hey guess what, under George W, from 2008-2010 (his last three budgets) the debt went from 10 to 13.5 trillion.
3.5 trillion in three years.
So, in the same amount of time the deficit has only increased by about half a trillion more under Obama, and the budgets have been on total smaller.
www.treasurydirect.gov...
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I wish I was left-brained with a head for numbers. If I was, I could probably figure out a decent response. What I do know, is that a 16 Trillion dollar deficit is a staggering amount of money and I don't know how we can ever hope to repay it.
I also know that Obama said if the economy wasn't fixed by the end of his first term, he would be a "One-term President." Well the economy is far from fixed, it's worse. The price of gas has doubled since Obama took office (but I suppose that is Bush's fault too) increasing my transportation costs to almost $300 a month, and my heating bill to $250 a month on the winter - when under Bush I paid just over $100.
I don't have any "change" left.
Maybe a businessman will be able to put the country back into the black. I kinda doubt it, but I know that if Obama gets another 4 years this country will be like a third world nation when he's done with it. I think that's kind of the point.
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