According to CBS News:
“The National Debt has now increased more during President Obama’s three years and two months in office than it did during 8 years of the George W. Bush presidency.”
“Mr. Obama has been quick to blame his predecessor for the soaring Debt, saying Mr. Bush paid for two wars and a Medicare prescription drug program with borrowed funds.”
The cost of both wars from their beginning to the current date has been approximately $1.3 trillion, including the costs on Obama’s watch. Coincidentally, this is almost equal to the deficit for 2012 alone ($1.2 trillion).
Total Medicare Part D payments to date (since 2004) have come to about $411 billion (page 139 in this report), an average of about $46 billion a year so far. These costs will go up in future years, and by 2020 the total cost since inception is estimated at $1.344 trillion, or an average of $79 billion a year over that time.
So add the cost to date of the wars and Medicare Part D, and you get a bit over $1.7 trillion. Obama’s going to have to find a few more things to blame to pad that up to $4.9 trillion. And his first term isn’t even done yet.
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That's shameless. Obama inherited an economy in free-fall due to 8 years of GWB's unfettered paws on the economy. ...
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"Bush did it" isn't working any more.
- The debt Obama has piled up might have something to do with the $.5T less in annual government revenue that ...
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You think a few years of Obama sweeps the Bush era collapse under the rug?
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Cut taxes, start two wars, drop interest rates, loan printed money to anyone who asks, run incredible trade deficits, and ...
- I notice the Bush tax rates are still in place.
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Cut taxes, start two wars, drop interest rates, loan printed money to anyone who asks, run incredible trade deficits, and ...
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"Bush did it" isn't working any more.