$12.7 Trillion Added to the National Debt Over the Last Decade - GRAPH

[Tx4obama]

$12.7 Trillion Added to the National Debt Over the Last Decade

Graph: http://www.whitehouse.gov/infographics/us-national-debt?utm_source=wh.gov&utm_medium=shorturl&utm_campaign=shorturl

[sakabatou]

1. And we know who to "thank" for that.

*smirk*

[IndyPragmatist]

2. Thank you for that.....

Now I know that Obama has no blame in our current wars or for extending the Bush tax cuts. :eyes: Seems like they rehashed the NYT's graph from earlier this week.

[Igel]

3. It is a bit odd.

We know that there's unfunded Medicare prescription drug costs. We also know that they continued in 2009 and 2010.

That's been moved to 2001-2008.

Lots of other things have been moved. Obama's only responsible for things he's changed, not things he's inherited or things that's happened to him. And everything he's changed has been excellent.

It's WH. Not CBO. Does the WH staff have an interest in presenting even less-than-flattering information in a way that makes them and their boss look good?

[Festivito]

4. It's good but it seems to misinform and further entrench ignorance that defense is all Repub.

1.7T$ is NOT our defense spending over ten years. The graph indicates what is EXTRA military spending effected by Bush, but without labeling it as extra.

This graph then downplays how much we do spend on military and lets the Repubs who tend to be ignorant from the start to entrench themselves in their current errant so-called-to-themselves thinking -- wrongs as they are.