IT'S NOT THAT "WE'RE BROKE" - LIKE THE BANK BAILOUTS, IT'S 'WHO PAYS'
Why should Americans pay for the failed Bush years, with massive cuts to rank-and-file programs like medicare, rather than a tax on those who supported Bush to get elected, "the haves and the have mores" as he once put it?
JUST THE FACTS
Here are the on-budget deficits from Bush-43:
in billions.
2001 -32
2002 -317
2003 -538
2004 -568
2005 -494
2006 -434
2007 -342
2008 -642
Total -3,368 [That's three trillion dollars - years of total GOP control in bold.]
Here are the on-budget deficits from Clinton:
1993 -300.4
1994 -258.8
1995 -226.4
1996 -174.0
1997 -103.2
1998 -29.9
1999 1.9
2000 86.4
Total -1,004 [That's one trillion dollars]
And that evil fiend (!!!), Jimmy Carter?
| Total: | -218.1 |
| 1977 | -49.9 |
| 1978 | -55.4 |
| 1979 | -39.6 |
| 1980 | -73.1 |
Adjusting these for recessions, which can be done, doesn't change the general picture.
