[aruanan]

Which huge spending bills? peanuts compared to the congress of the past 4 years. With two large wars going on, the deficit ballooned, but the Republican congress brought the deficit down sharply when they were in majorities. The deficit is 10 to 15 times larger now than the last Republican year.

Even with the 2008 deficit spending ballooning to over 400 billion under Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, the average deficit for the Bush years was about 200 billion per year. Obama's deficit for the first year was about as big as that for all Bush years combined.

[Kaslin]

Didn’t 0bama spend in the first year more then all presidents combined up to Ronald Reagan?