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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWho Is The Smallest Government Spender Since Eisenhower?
Would You Believe It's Barack Obama?
http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2012/05/24/who-is-the-smallest-government-spender-since-eisenhower-would-you-believe-its-barack-obama/
Tigress DEM
(7,887 posts)LonePirate
(13,431 posts)Our government sorely needs a new source of revenue or additional revenue from existing sources.
ProfessorGAC
(65,248 posts)Forbes published this? I'm surprised. It goes against everything fiscal conservatives are running against.
SpankMe
(2,970 posts)Forbes is generally right-leaning and a cheerleader for right wing economic and business principles.
Still, his whole piece is much more fact than opinion. He even provides links to non-politically biased sources for his data.
His responses to the haters in the comments section are excellent.
HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)The growth in inflation corrected dollars over the term, divided by the number of years of the term?
malaise
(269,219 posts)librarylu
(503 posts)I keep hearing about that damned clock and how much the "food stamp president" is costing us per day.
The truth will out.
porphyrian
(18,530 posts)bamacrat
(3,867 posts)So does this chart attribute the previous president for the first year of the next term. Reagan was elected in 80 and 84, clinton in 92 and 96 and PBO in 08. Yet each term starts the year after...
But aside from that, this really isnt shocking to those outside the republican bubble.
Qutzupalotl
(14,335 posts)So the 2009 budget was approved under Bush. Fy2010 was Obama's first budget without any Bush spending.
bamacrat
(3,867 posts)amuse bouche
(3,657 posts)absolutely be a T.V ad
Norrin Radd
(4,959 posts)LeftinOH
(5,359 posts)kentuck
(111,110 posts)"Slowest growth in Federal spending".
When you start with a very high budget, you are spending more but you are not increasing spending as much.