[Hoot Gibson]

federal budget
FY 2009 ran from October 1 2008 through September 30 2009
FY 2010 is from October 1 2009 through September 30 2010
FY 2011 is from October 1 2010 through September 30 2011
FY 2012 is from October 1 2011 through September 30 2012
george w bush was in office oct 2008

obama took office jan. 20 2009

In a February 28, 2001, message to the Congress, Bush estimated that there would be a $5.6 trillion surplus over the next ten years ?

By October 2008, due to increases in domestic and foreign spending,[106] the national debt had risen to $11.3 trillion an increase of over 100% from the start of the year 2000 when the debt was $5.6 trillion

Most debt was accumulated as a result of what became known as the "Bush tax cuts" and increased national security spending

In November 2008, over 500,000 jobs were lost, which marked the largest loss of jobs in the United States in 34 years.[125] The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that in the last four months of 2008, 1.9 million jobs were lost.[126] By the end of 2008, the U.S. had lost a total of 2.6 million jobs.[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush#cite_note-126][/url]

Nothing George Bush did while in office was binding on Obama and the Democratic Congress when Obama took office. The actions on the previous Congress are not binding on any future Congress. You do realize which party controlled the House of Representatives beginning in 2007 - and which party controlled the House in the first two years of Obama's presidency as well - don't you? Obama was elected to take action to improve the economy and to put people back to work - not to whine ad nauseum that he "inherited a mess."

Your attempts to blame Bush for the spending of Democrats in Congress and Obama after he retired is ridiculous. Nothing prevented Obama and the Democrats from slashing federal spending quickly after taking office. Nothing made Obama push through Obamacare, which is, as much as any other factor, discouraging businesses from hiring permanent employees. Bush deserves blame for the state of the economy when he turned over the keys to the White House. After that, the economy became Obama's and his actions have made matters worse.