[TheRealThing]

^Study up on spending under Obama, compared to recent years.
http://money.cnn.com/2014/01/27/news/eco...ing-obama/

Let me get this straight. In comparing my post to both of your posts, your advice to me is to study?

Now, if the national debt had been lowered to any degree over the past 6 plus years, that would be something to celebrate. But, to say that the deficit is shrinking at record levels is disingenuous at best. We're not better off for two reasons. First, while the White House was ballyhooing about the deficit, it was at the same time signing over 620 billion in tax hikes. And secondly in reality, it was only his own trillion dollar plus deficits that allowed Mr Obama to be able to claim a shrinking deficit in the first place. Here's a year by year deficit spending breakdown to demonstrate what I'm saying:
BUSH---FY 2002 158 billion/ FY 2003 378 billion/ FY 2004 413 billion/ FY 2005 318 billion/ (9/11 spending) FY 2006 248 billion/ FY 2007 161 billion/ FY 2008 458 billion/ FY 2009 1.16 trillion (bailouts)

OBAMA--- FY 2010 1.546 trillion / FY 2011 1.299 trillion/ FY 2012 1.087 trillion/ FY 2013 680 billion/ FY 2014 649 billion/ FY 2015 564 billion/ FY 2016 531 billion/ FY 2017 458 billion

Plus the fact that the CBO is predicting trillion dollar deficits after next year because federal spending for things like the backloading of the costs for ObamaCare, will grow faster than the economy.