Three Charts To Email To Your Right-Wing Brother-In-Law

[kpete]

Spending

Deficits

The Stimulus and Jobs


More plus chart info:
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Three-Charts-To-Email-To-Y-by-Dave-Johnson-110829-565.html

[onehandle]

1. He'll just credit the teabagger takeover, no matter what reality is. nt

[MBS]

2. Excellent

I'd seen the third one, but not the first two. .

[Zebedeo]

3. In the first chart, 2009 spending including stim is attributed to Bush

and in the third chart, 2009 slowing in the rate of job losses is attributed to Obama. Better not show RW types both of these charts at the same time.

[mikekohr]

4. Makes perfect sense to me, this is history repeating itself, R's "F"up D's clean up

The last chart shows the 1st quarter of 2009 Obama stimulus, halted, slowed, and then reversed the staggering job losses inherited from George W. Bush. This matches the 80 year record on job creation between Democrat and Republican administrations. See also:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mHSyEv8vBt4/S6Zvl-nui8I/AAAAAAAAACQ/3j0wUSj78mk/s640/Job+growth+graph.jpg?

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mHSyEv8vBt4/S6Z6xo0qSnI/AAAAAAAAACY/p8SkoEnN5dw/s640/job+creation+by+president.jpg?


The second chart shows an average of 11% increase in spending during George W. Bush's 8 year national nightmare but only a less than 3.6% average increase in spending during President Obama's fiscal years of 10/2009-10/2022. This matches the 50 year record of Republican presidents outspending Democratic Presidents by more than 100%:
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The first chart also reflects the repeating of the historical pattern of Democratic Presidents lowering the national debt and Republican's expanding it. See: ?

sources available at: http://bureaucountydems.blogspot.com/

[fifthoffive]

5. Huh?

In the first chart, 2009 spending is attributed to Obama, not Bush. In the third chart it correctly shows Obama taking the reins in late January, 2009. What's incorrect about either chart?

[Zebedeo]

6. In the first chart,

2009 is colored red and attributed to Bush. There is a huge increase in spending between 2008 and 2009. So the chart attributes that very steep increase to Bush, and then has some flat or downward projections in the future attributed to Obama. The point is to make it appear as though the huge increase in spending was Bush's doing, and that Obama is bringing spending down. But Pres. Obama's stimulus was part of the 2009 spending, as is made clear in the third chart. I believe in intellectual honesty. If Obama gets credit for a decrease in the rate of job losses in 2009 due to stimulus spending (third chart), then the increase in spending in 2009 is also something that is part of his record. It is intellectually dishonest to say that the 2009 spending increase was George Bush's doing, but the benefits from the 2009 spending increase is to Obama's credit.

[mikekohr]

7. Source material

The numbers in these two charts come from Budget of the United States Government: Historical Tables Fiscal Year 2012. They are just the amounts that the government spent and borrowed, period, Anyone can go look then up. Peoplewho claim that Obama "tripled the deficit" are either misled or are trying to mislead.

http://www.truth-out.org/three-charts-email-your-right-wing-brother-law/1314626142