Epic FAIL. Like I said . . . Obama has not made one single policy that he has blamed on Bush. Not one or you could cite it.
What is an Epic fail is that I NEVER said Obama blamed Bush for Obama's Policies. I did however say that under his leadership, he continues to blame Bush AKA "inherited". Fine, don't concede that when Obama states he inherited this hes not talking about Bush, because before him it was Clinton. Is that who he "inherited" this from? Obama's only policy was the stimulus and health care. The Stimulus didn't drop us below 8% unemployment and majority of the nation rejects the health care mandate.
So whats Obama's excuse for his deficit spending? "CBO confirms that Democrats have taken federal spending to a new and higher plateau: 24.7% of GDP in 2009, 24.1% this year, and back to an estimated 24.3% in 2011. The modern historical average is about 20.5%, and less than that if you exclude the Reagan defense buildup of the 1980s that helped to win the Cold War and let Bill Clinton reduce defense spending to 3% of GDP in the 1990s." http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703906204575027181656362948.html
"Adding all of this up, deficit spending during Obama’s four years in the White House (based on his own figures) will be an estimated $5.170 trillion — or $5,170,000,000,000.00." http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/painful-cost-obama_629745.html "Well, prior to Obama, our annual deficit spending had only exceeded 6.0 percent of GDP during the Civil War, World War I, and World War II. Except during those huge conflicts, our deficits had never exceeded 6.0 percent of GDP in any year — not during the Great Depression, not at the height of the Cold War defense buildup, not ever. But that’s no longer the case. During Obama’s four years in the White House (and, again, using his own numbers), annual deficit spending will average 8.4 percent of GDP."
"The current administration would kill to have such small numbers. President Barack Obama is unveiling his budget this week, and, in addition to the inherited Bush deficit, he’s adding his own spending at an astonishing pace, projecting annual deficits well beyond $1 trillion in the near future, and, in the rosiest possible scenario, a $533 billion deficit in fiscal year 2013, the last year of Obama’s first term." http://washingtonexaminer.com/polit...illions-dwarf-bushs-dangerous-spending/103610
That is just stating facts that you don't like. The financial crisis was not of his making. The recovery was. Some people need to be reminded of this clearly. Look, he had only one immediate predecessor and THAT is who he inherited the recession from. Bush inherited budget surpluses from Clinton and frittered it away with wild spending and irresponsible tax cuts. Not at all. Those are just the two that you don't like. How about his policy to step up the war on Al Qaeda and get out of useless Iraq? It did reverse the 800,000 jobs a month we were losing under Bush to gaining 250,000 jobs a month under Obama. His energy policy has turned us into an exporter of US refined products. He expanded offshore drilling to the Atlantic before BP ruined it for their industry with bad publicity. His successful foreign policy has been described as "a form of realism unafraid to deploy American power but mindful that its use must be tempered by practical limits and a dose of self-awareness." Well, their elected representatives passed it. It's in the Constitution. You should read it.
The graph shows that spending as a percentage of GDP has risen at a steady rate for a hundred years. There are spikes at the expected places--The Great Depression of 1929, World War II, and the Great Recession of 2008. Then it returns to the steady curve.
