Intergenerational Theft – Deficit, the Obama year(s)

Just a great analysis by Ed Morrissey on the Obama year in office and the resulting deficit. It break down the difference in debt since the Democrats took control … how the Democrats played “cat and mouse” with Bush before the FY 09 budget was enacted … and how one man and one Congress robbed your kids like never before.

The latest posting from the Treasury Department shows the National Debt has increased over $2 trillion since President Obama took office.

The debt now stands at $12.6 trillion. On the day Mr. Obama took office it was $10.6 trillion.

President George W. Bush still holds the record for the most debt run up on his watch: $4.9 trillion. But it took him over four years to rack up the first two trillion dollars in debt. It has taken Mr. Obama 421 days.

None of this of course let’s the Republicans off the hook on any of this. After forcing Bill Clinton to balance the budget upon winning the House in ’94 … they reverted to a candy store mentality from 01 on and began adding to the deficit again. Yes, a recession and boosting a teetering economy after 9-11, had much to do with it all. But two wars, and an expansion of Medicare needed to be paid for either by spending cuts elsewhere or increased revenues and they were not.

That said, this President has redefined “spendthrift”.

Neither of those figures showers the GOP in any glory.  However, both of those figures pale in comparison to the damage Democrats have done in half the time:

  • Counting Democratic control from their ascension after the 2006 midterms (from 1/2/2007 forward), Democratic Congresses have added $3.96 trillion in just over three years.
  • Counting it by fiscal years, Democrats have added $3.57 trillion since 10/1/2007 (the beginning of their FY2008 budget) in 30 months.

This a must read, and since this is what I used to do for a living, the analysis took a lot of time. Something worthwhile always does.

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Jim Vicevich

Jim is a veteran broadcaster and conservative/libertarian blogger with more than 25 years experience in TV and radio. Jim's was the long-term host of The Jim Vicevich Show on WTIC 1080 in Hartford from 2004 through 2019. Prior to radio, Jim worked as a business and financial reporter for NBC30 - the NBC owned TV station in Hartford - and as business editor at WFSB-TV in Hartford for 14 years while earning six Emmy nominations and three Telly Awards.

2 Comments

  1. Dimsdale on March 17, 2010 at 2:09 pm

    Yes, the Republicans have their share of this mess on their heads, but a simple correlation between the minute Pelosi picked up the gavel, and the start of the decline of the economy is revealing.  They can blame Bush all they want, but the crash started when they got their claws on the purse strings of the nation.   And it is getting exponentially worse with the election of the affirmative action president.



  2. Dimsdale on March 17, 2010 at 5:23 pm

    Democrats steal from the living, the dead, the children, and now, the unborn.  The ones they allow to live, anyway.



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