[FromTheSidelines]

Hey - guess what? Each inflection point in the curves is a budget year! Guess where the last one ends - 2009... Of course, that’s wrongly attributed to President Bush.

Oh, he was President all right, but he didn’t write or sign that budget that was passed for FY2009. So the Bush years stop at that -$459B mark...

Now do you see it? Or is your ego and blind obedience to some sort of twisted logic all that drives you?

[LomanBill]

[Each inflection point in the curves is a budget year!]

Ok, thanks for the explanation.

[Oh, he was President all right, but he didn’t write or sign that budget that was passed for FY2009. So the Bush years stop at that -$459B mark...]

 

The system of record says otherwise:

 

“As we work to keep taxes low, we must do more to restrain spending. My Budget proposes to keep non-security discretionary spending growth below 1 percent for 2009 and then hold it at that level for the next 4 years. It also cuts spending on projects that are not achieving results—because good intentions alone do not justify a program that is not working.”

President George W. Bush

The Budget Message of the President

Fiscal Year 2009 Budget

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This volume describes and provides funding levels for major discretionary and mandatory savings and reform proposals in the Fiscal Year 2009 Budget....

http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BUDGET-2009-SAVINGS/pdf/BUDGET-2009-SAVINGS.pdf

 

Now can you admit you're wrong -- or does your character preclude you from doing so?