Bush is better than Obama, nobody here is denying that.
How convenient for us to blame Obama for the huge deficits of the last four years, as though we had nothing to do with it. I see the deficit chart here, which is very interesting and tells part of the story, but I don’t see a spending chart or a revenue chart. What i have heard is that spending has increased under O about the same as under Bush, but that revenues have fallen mightily. In any event, we seem to be forgetting that O is not a dictator, and that congress has to vote for our nation’s spending each year. It’s convenient to have a bogeyman, but everyone is looking at the wrong one. The real bogeyman is ALL OF US. We demand enormous benefits from our government, freebies, massive military far beyond any major group of countries combined, massive government pensions of all kinds, unlimited medical care, highways, electricity, wars, AND WE REFUSE TO PAY FOR IT. The surest way to get elected in America for the last thirty years of so, or probably longer, has been to promise “free” benefits from the government that you don’t even have to pay more taxes to get. Even better, someone hit on the idea a while back of convincing people that they could get these increased benefits AND a tax cut at the same time, if we just voted for the right politician, because after all, the budget would balance itself anyway. Never mind that it never did. We fed our hearts on fantasy, and we are reaping the whirlwind.