2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumRepublicans Are Bad At Math
I noticed this gem on the official Official House GOP webpage:
"President Obama has now been responsible for the FIVE highest deficits of all time"
Note that this was posted in October 2012 before he was even re-elected.
mucifer
(23,554 posts)The press almost always parrots their lies. As long as the press backs them up they will not stop lying.
Schema Thing
(10,283 posts)WallaceRitchie
(242 posts)sakabatou
(42,159 posts)Flashmann
(2,140 posts)Also bad at dealing in facts,speaking truth,critical thought,expressing believable empathy unless it's for the poor poor billionaires,history,government and quite surprisingly,considering how often they do it,lying....
santamargarita
(3,170 posts)mikekohr
(2,312 posts)THE LAST 3 REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTS HAVE ACCOUNTED FOR $9.2 TRILLION OF THE INCREASE IN THE NATIONAL DEBT
Every President, from Truman to Carter, steadily paid down the staggering debt that was run up in our fight against Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. That pattern came to a screeching halt with Reagan/Bush and Bush. Clintons fiscal policy was a brief respite during this orgy of deficit spending.
Clinton's economic policies balanced 5 budgets, which is 5 more balanced budgets than the last 5 Republican presidents combined.
President Obama, like President Clinton, inherited a sea of red ink and a recession from his predecessor. He, like President Clinton, recognizes the importance of getting America back to work and then getting our fiscal house in order.
See National Debt Graph @: http://zfacts.com/p/318.html
See Yearly Deficits: http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/108xx/doc10871/HistoricalTables.pdf
Congress did not create the $9.2 trillion of debt under Reagan/VBush/Bush: http://zfacts.com/p/57.html
cached at:
http://bureaucountydems.blogspot.com/p/national-debt.html
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)ROBROX
(392 posts)The GOP lies, cheats, and steals.
The GOP in 1980 started the concept of BORROWING and then they forget what they did about BORROWING.
Our only hope is that the old GOP will die out and we can have a BETTER world without the greedy bastards.
zipplewrath
(16,646 posts)Generally, I haven't found too many that actually do the math.
Socal31
(2,484 posts)I checked the ToS, and "Water is Wet" threads are expressly forbidden.