WOW, Hold your horses. You are talking about the worst Terror attack on our shores in its history, the near collapse of the finacial industry and destruction of the Travel Tourism industry as part of our GDP, you are talking about 2 wars and many thousands of other military actions around the globe in 8 years executed to keep us safe, you are talking about the worst natural disaster to ever hit this country when Katrina slammed into NOLA. Of course those things cost money. Not a single damnned one of those was something that Any President would wish for let alone create. with Obama this is all about needless wanton spending of trillions knowing full well what the recent history has been. To be fair, excluding TARP, Bush left about half a trillion in defecit spending, the rest of his budget was paid for on top of all that crap I just listed. I was simply talking about the total authorized funding that Bush left to Obama in the form of Tarp, Obama claims that is defecit spending and it wasn't it was a LOAN and the GOP need to make hay with that LOAN that is getting paid back with interest after it worked. For Obama to be able to complain that he inherited that portion as a defecit is a LIE, LIE, LIE....
To be fair, excluding TARP, Bush left about half a trillion in defecit spending, the rest of his budget was paid for on top of all that crap I just listed.The fact of the matter is that the official total U.S. public debt outstanding in 2001 was ~$5.7 Trillion, and that the same figure in 2008 was ~$10 Trillion.
Of course those things cost money.
Then spend YOUR own money instead of committing me to spend MY future money.
Capiche?