Of Budgets & Deficits

Posted by Tina

Find the article, “Bush Deficit vs. Obama Deficit in Pictures,” at Heritage.org

President Barack Obama has repeatedly claimed that his budget would cut the deficit by half by the end of his term. But as Heritage analyst Brian Riedl has pointed out, given that Obama has already helped quadruple the deficit with his stimulus package, pledging to halve it by 2013 is hardly ambitious. The Washington Post has a great graphic which helps put President Obama’s budget deficits in context of President Bush’s. ** What’s driving Obama’s unprecedented massive deficits? Spending.

Click on the link above to read the rest of the article or just settle your eyes on the incredible graph below:

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