Bush Deficit vs. Obama Deficit in Pictures

[MattAMatt]

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. more... (http://blog.heritage.org/2009/03/24/bush-deficit-vs-obama-deficit-in-pictures/)

Posted March 24th, 2009
Author: Conn Carroll
American Heritage Foundation

[Independent Harry]

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. more... (http://blog.heritage.org/2009/03/24/bush-deficit-vs-obama-deficit-in-pictures/)

Posted March 24th, 2009
Author: Conn Carroll
American Heritage Foundation

I love tihs lie of a graph. Bush left the office with over a trillion dollar projected deficit for the year end. Its been posted so many times Chicken Little.

[MattAMatt]

Tell that to the Washington Post. Not me. It's their chart

[Independent Harry]

Tell that to the Washington Post. Not me. It's their chart

you could at least be honest when trying to represent something liek that.

[MattAMatt]

you could at least be honest when trying to represent something liek that.

Something like what?