Who Is The Smallest Government Spender Since Eisenhower?

[Quixote1818]

Would You Believe It's Barack Obama?

It’s enough to make even the most ardent Obama cynic scratch his head in confusion.

Amidst all the cries of Barack Obama being the most prolific big government spender the nation has ever suffered, Marketwatch is reporting that our president has actually been tighter with a buck than any United States president since Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Who knew?

Check out the chart –



Link from Forbs: http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2012/05/24/who-is-the-smallest-government-spender-since-eisenhower-would-you-believe-its-barack-obama/

[DippyDem]

1. Oh? So the Repukes favorite Reagan is the biggest spender according to this chart??

[white_wolf]

2. He tripped the deficit and spent more than every President before him combined. n/t

[Major Nikon]

6. This just goes to show what effect military spending has

Raygun introduced Cold War version 2.0 based on the flawed advice of Team B (Wolfowitz and co.). In the process he tripled the federal debt.

[datasuspect]

3. if you could turn that graph into a baseball bat and beat fox news zombies in the head with it

they. still. would. not. get. it.

[Quixote1818]

4. They probably would get it but the Dems don't sign their pay checks

so they pretend it's not true because their masters are only concerned with keeping their taxes low.

[twins.fan]

5. Carter would probably have been less than all of them.

[Curtland1015]

7. Well of course they spent more! The economy was so much better under them!

*Fox News Spin*