[calcowgirl]

I think your chart makes one of sickoflibs’ point. Here are the Heritage Foundation comments that accompany their posting of the same chart:

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

What’s driving Obama’s unprecedented massive deficits? Spending.

Riedl details:

President Bush expanded the federal budget by a historic $700 billion through 2008. President Obama would add another $1 trillion.

President Bush began a string of expensive finan­cial bailouts. President Obama is accelerating that course.

President Bush created a Medicare drug entitle­ment that will cost an estimated $800 billion in its first decade. President Obama has proposed a $634 billion down payment on a new govern­ment health care fund.

President Bush increased federal education spending 58 percent faster than inflation. Presi­dent Obama would double it.

President Bush became the first President to spend 3 percent of GDP on federal antipoverty programs. President Obama has already in­creased this spending by 20 percent.

President Bush tilted the income tax burden more toward upper-income taxpayers. President Obama would continue that trend.

President Bush presided over a $2.5 trillion increase in the public debt through 2008. Setting aside 2009 (for which Presidents Bush and Obama share responsibility for an additional $2.6 trillion in public debt), President Obama’s budget would add $4.9 trillion in public debt from the beginning of 2010 through 2016.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

Thanks ccg. I think we were getting off the point arguing about what talk show hosts said.

President Bush expanded the federal budget by a historic $700 billion through 2008. President Obama would add another $1 trillion......