The Country was Fine 'til the Start of '09!

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25. it is not at all incorrect

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Deficits by yr http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/federal_deficit

2005 - $318 billion
2006 - $248 billion
2007 - $161 billion
2008 - $458 billion

Obama became President in 2009

2009 - $1,413 billion
2010 - $1,294 billion
2011 - $1,300 billion
2012 - $1,087 billion
2013 - $680 billion

Sure, like the link says, fiscal year 2009 is really part of the Bush presidency, but it sure LOOKS like part of the Obama Presidency, and there would be no point in protesting THAT Bush deficit in December 2008 - the man was already out the door.

So like I said - the Obama deficits dwarf the Bush deficits. $1.3 trillion is much much bigger than $400 billion, and Obama has three, count 'em three, deficits over $1 trillion!!!

As I said also, though, ALL of those deficits are the fault of the BUSH recession.

But thanks to that recession, the economy simply IS, and has been, worse under Obama than it was under Bush. Bush inherited a strong Clinton economy, Obama inherited an almost dead Bush economy.

Still, unemployment rate by year

Bush's term
2001 - 4.7%
2002 - 5.8%
2003 - 6.0%
2004 - 5.5%
2005 - 5.1%
2006 - 4.6%
2007 - 4.6%
2008 - 5.8%

Obama's term
2009 - 9.3%
2010 - 9.6%
2011 - 8.9%
2012 - 8.1%
2013 - 7.4%

Not to mention that during Bush's terms, the labor force was 66% of the population and now it is only 63%. Sure, the wheels came off at the end of Bush's tenure, and Obama has had to deal with that, but clearly the economy WAS better for most of Bush's terms than it has been for Obama's.

That's why I keep pounding away with the message of my link - the bad economy is because of Bush (and Republicans). http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024400678