Smasharoo wrote:
I'd be the first to admit that the mere $167 bil Dubya threw at us was eyepopping at the time, but is dwarfed in relation to today's numbers.
It's amazing how quickly Obama caused a massive financial meltdown costing us Trillions, isn't it? Years before he took office, that brother is good.
Let's be fair here though. The meltdown itself didn't cost us a dollar. It's the "fixes" that are costing so much money. We can debate which things are necessary and all that, but let's not ignore that the decision to spend money is made "now".
Unless you're arguing that the decision to spend the most recent 800ish Billion dollars on stimulus was made by anyone other than the people currently sitting in office? Cause that would be a neat trick for Republicans to continue writing legislation two years after they lost control of both houses and for Bush to continue to hold veto power even though he's not president anymore...
Obama didn't inherit the spending he and the Dems are doing right now, so let's not push that little cart too far up the hill, shall we?