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I have not ignored your comments. I told you that I get different numbers than you and gave my source.
The link provided shows deficit for every Obama Budget year 2010 to 2017
1.29, 1.30, 1.09 0.68, 0.49, 0.44, 0.59, 0.50 = 6.38 Trillion
US Federal Deficit by Year - plus charts and analysis
I do not know why your number is different than what is given at USGovernmentspending.com. I have not dug into it that deeply have done a whole lot more than you have.
Either way ... 6.4 or 7.8 Trillion is way too much.
Your claim that I took the CATO Think Tanks comments out of context is demonstrably false.
The name of the article is "Don't blame Obama for Bush's 2009 Deficit"
How then is my saying " Don't blame Obama for bush's 2009 Deficit" taking the article out of context.
How is me saying .. "the money was spent/allocated prior to Obama coming into office" taking the article out of context.
CATO article https://www.cato.org/blog/dont-blame-obama-bushs-2009-deficit
What have I taken out of context .. ? Why are you accusing me of things I did not do and making up falsehoods.
I told you the money was already spent through continuing resolutions - something backed up by the "right wing" Cato institute an the other right wing (Obama hating) link.
Spare me your demonstrably false accusations. The only one you are fooling is yourself.
What you want to ignore is that in fact the Cato comments are out of context just like the budget website as neither take into account when the budget was signed and the money appropriated. Had the budget been signed the spending authorization would have occurred but it wasn't signed or passed. The continuing resolutions expired on March 31, 2009 thus Obama had 6 months to correct the problem. Further what you want to ignore is basic civics in that Congress controls the spending and that Congress was under control of the Democrats who seem to know that they would get people like you blaming Bush
Money was spent, how much? The Website will give you that as it shows spending and revenue each day and if money was spent it was included in the website data. Bush did not have spending authority beyond March 31, 2009 and that is when the Continuing resolutions expired. Under no circumstances are continuing resolutions spending appropriations for the entire fiscal year. you ought to know better.
So there are two things false in that Cato argument, one there was no Bush budget approved and two TARP wasn't an expense it was a loan. it was money spent which was part of the Bush deficit HOWEVER the repayment never hit the budget, only the interest on those payments. Obama reused the money and knew people like you would blame it on Bush. That is reality. Seems rather simple to understand, now why don't you understand that?