The Democrats' "Inherited Deficit" Farce

Just more proof of the lies that the Democrats keep repeating, as if the more they repeat their blatant lies more people will start believing them and re-write historical FACT.

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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 FY2008 and FY2009, as well as FY2010 and FY2011. 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 FY2009, 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 FY2009 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 FY2009.

Let’s remind people of what the deficits looked like during that period:

The White House DOES NOT control the budget, Congress does, and for those of you who have been living under a rock since November 2006 or drinking the left wing kool-aid, there is NO CHALLENGING THE FACT: THE DEMOCRATS HAVE BEEN  IN CONTROL OF BOTH HOUSES OF CONGRESS SINCE JAN 2007.  Anything BEFORE Jan 2007, you can blame on Republicans squarely.  But NO ONE, and I mean NO ONE can argue that anyone FORCED Barak Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid to TRIPLE the national deficit in less than 1 YEAR!!!!!  Barak Obama and Democrats spent more money than President George W. Bush did COMBINED in his 8 years as president.  Democrats also managed to let unemployment explode to 10.2%.  While President Bush's max unemployment was around 6.5% granted it was going up as the economic crisis of 2008 began. 

This is indisputable, all the Democrats have done since Jan 2007 is SPEND SPEND SPEND.  So the notion of President Barak Hussien Obama "inheriting a massive national deficit", is a total farce and a blatant lie.  Senator Barak Obama was in fact, one of those Senators exploding the national deficit.  Republicans had nothing to do with the massive government spending in the last 2 years President George W. Bush was President because... wait for it... the President of the United States DOES NOT  write/create/control the budget process by which government spends American tax payer money.  So even though President George W. Bush was in fact President of the USA at the time, Bush had no control over Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid spending the night away with your American citizen tax dollars. 

So, if you still think that Republicans and George W. Bush are responsible for creating and exploding the national deficit all you need to ask yourself is:  1) When did the Democrats take over Congress?  ,and 2) When did our national deficit start to exponentially explode to levels NEVER SEEN BEFORE? 

Answer #1) Democrats took over all of Congress in January 2007 after defeating Republicans in both the House of Representatives and Senate.

Answer #2) see chart above for FY 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011.

Need any more explaining on how our government actually works?


More Barak Obama attempting to re-write history.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/12/08/obama-takes-joblessness/

"We were forced to take those steps (to jump-start the economy) largely without the help of an opposition party which, unfortunately, after having presided over the decision-making that had led to the crisis, decided to hand it over to others to solve," Obama said, starting his address with a history lesson on the roots of the recession.

OK, 1 more time let me explain why this is a farce and a total blatant lie.  Barak Obama was a US Senator since 2004.  Democrats have been running Congress since Jan 2007 after winning over BOTH the House of Representative and the US Senate.  So now the DEMOCRATS ARE IN CONTROL OF SPENDING FROM Jan 2007 onwards, with full control over the FY 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011 Congressional budgets (See deficit chart above). There is no debating this, this is HISTORICAL FACT THAT IS UNARGUABLE.

Yet here we have President Barak Obama claiming that somehow, someway the Republicans were responsible for creating the economic mess when Democrats have been fully in control of the Congressional budget since 2007.  Something don't smell right here?!?!?!  What Obama is really trying to do here is blame someone else for the mess Barak Obama and the Democrats have made since taking over BOTH the House of Representative and the US Senate in November 2006.  President Bush had nothing to do with the spending of the 112th Congress, all the President does is sign legislation into law and tries to be a cheerleader in trying to get Congress to write laws and legislation that the President wants to sign into law.  Congress on the other hand ACTUALLY writes the law, and SPENDS tax payer money on Congressional projects and budgets.

And who was in that Congress in November 2006 until November 2008.. oh yeah that guy, President Barak Hussien Obama. 

So the notion that Barak Obama is trying to pass the responsibility for the ever expanding federal deficit is a COMPLETE LIE!  Logic does not compute the way Barak Obama and the Democrats are hoping it does.  Barak Obama and the Democratic Party OWN this deficit issue.  THEY OWN IT WHOLLY 100%. 

To argue otherwise is to believe truth is fantasy. Which ironically is the land that pretty much a whole bunch of Obama supporters live in with unicorns and magical diplomacy to cure the world of all evils because Barak Hussien Obama says so.