tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3545676689750042390.post7839710353984693207..comments2023-10-14T08:00:54.506-07:00Comments on Creekside Chat: The Rest of the Story Behind President Obama's Deficit Claim and PolitiFact's "Fact Checking"Soquel by the Creekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13982496379450866613noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3545676689750042390.post-58242224560058952342014-03-31T17:17:04.476-07:002014-03-31T17:17:04.476-07:00You say "The United States government, in no ...You say "The United States government, in no way, shape, or form is the "smallest government in 50 years." The Twitterer is potentially mistaking a claim that we have the lowest percentage of people employed by the government in 45 years."<br /><br />Get a clue. You source clearly states, "to be clear, we're talking state, federal, and local here". <br /><br />Bush was the worst President of the 20th century. The Iraq war was the biggest foreign policy blunder in American history that exploded deficit spending and you want people to believe it was just coincidence that Wall Street crashed the world economy. Of course we went deficit. Unemployment through the roof causing people to not be able to pay their mortgages, mass defaults cause loss of Americans assets on a scale not seen since 1929, revenue down, economy wrecked, then Wall Street got the jobless recovery it wanted. The jobs created are not he jobs lost. Most of them lost forever to technology and outsourcing, mainly to China. <br /><br />BTW.. I know a Soquel Creek. I lived a quarter mile from it and watched it turn into the Colorado River rapids the year of the Love Creek slide. Is it THAT Soquel Creek.<br /><br />Jackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06741843830328394115noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3545676689750042390.post-27749251894023059452013-12-08T12:17:24.126-08:002013-12-08T12:17:24.126-08:00Grant, there is plenty of blame to go around on th...Grant, there is plenty of blame to go around on the deficit. Indeed, President Obama happened to be standing next to the proverbial fan when the big pieces struck. However, he amplified and expanded free-spending, counter-productive policies.<br /><br />No doubt, President Bush II, Speaker Pelosi, & Majority Leader Reid share the blame for the dismal FY2009 record. However, President OBAMA, Speaker Pelosi, & Majority Leader Reid CONTINUED that dismal record. In fact, there was NO BUDGET for many years. President Obama's budgets were UNANIMOUSLY rejected on BIPARTISAN votes in BOTH Houses of Congress.<br /><br />Government spending and debt are historically high relative to the size of the U.S. economy. Six of the top 10 richest counties all surround Washington, D.C. Too much goes to DC at the detriment to the rest of the nation.Soquel by the Creekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13982496379450866613noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3545676689750042390.post-74512689954258035542013-12-07T19:48:30.808-08:002013-12-07T19:48:30.808-08:00You left out one teeny tiny detail.
The FY2009 bu...You left out one teeny tiny detail.<br /><br />The FY2009 budget is Bush's. See, you budget for years before they start, and Fiscal 2009 was more than half over before Obama was even sworn into office. The day Obama stepped in the deficit was ALREADY well north of a trillion for that fiscal year. Refer to the January 2009 CBO budget report published 2 weeks before he was sworn in. And they were underestimating it at the time because they had underestimated the rate of GDP collapse that was happening by like a factor of 2.<br /><br />So... WHO was it that increased the deficit at the fasted rate since WW2 mobilization? Granthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14151416582796784877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3545676689750042390.post-9899641709748343452013-08-05T09:03:27.560-07:002013-08-05T09:03:27.560-07:00Thank you for your post. Good work and very useful...Thank you for your post. Good work and very useful. Keep it up. Wish you were WordPress so it was easier to "follow" you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com