If you come across some asshole complaining about what PBO has done to the deficit...

[MrScorpio]

Show them this chart:



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_budget

And then tell them to shut the fuck up.

[doc03]

1. I don't think that would settle any argument. By that chart the

deficit has exploded.

[MrScorpio]

2. The Righties will tell you the it exploded under Obama

When it's clearly Bush's fault.

[Selatius]

3. I actually got into a debate earlier today on Facebook over the deficits/debt.

The narrative was, of course, that Obama is ruining everything, but I simply posted this graph to show that Republicans have absolutely no room to criticize Democrats over the size of deficits or the debt:

[Saving Hawaii]

4. Umm, I don't think that chart means what you think it means...

I can definitely argue that point, pretty well I think, but this is definitely not something I would use as evidence in favor of Obama.

[ZombieHorde]

5. The Y axis is wrong.

If the first number is 10, then the second number should be 20, etc.

People often snip charts like this to skew how the numbers look.