You know, ever since I switched to Google Chrome, my web browser cries at every liberal post. So I'll just correct all these red lines and make it happy.
karel wrote:dude i don't care about that shit....what i'm saying is republicans got us into 2 useless wars, that's what got us into debt ,and then everything else started to fall,so can't blame the dems all the time
wikipedia wrote:The costs of the 2003-2010 Iraq War are often contested, as academics and critics have unearthed many hidden costs not represented in official estimates. The most recent major report on these costs come from Brown University in the form of the Costs of War project, which said the total for wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan is at least $3.2-4 trillion.
Factcheck.org wrote:It’s true that Obama “inherited the biggest deficit in our history,” as he said on CBS. By the time Obama took office in January 2009, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office had already estimated that increased spending and decreased revenues would result in a $1.2 trillion deficit for fiscal year 2009, which began Oct. 1, 2008. In a detailed analysis of fiscal year 2009, we found that Obama was responsible for adding at most $203 billion to the deficit, which in the end topped $1.4 trillion that year.
But that was just the first of four years of trillion-plus deficits. The last three budgets fall squarely under Obama. And, during that time, the federal government ran up deficits of $1.3 trillion in 2010, $1.3 trillion in 2011, and about $1.2 trillion in the fiscal year that ends Sept. 30 — for a total of nearly $5.2 trillion in deficit spending.
Note that Obama's deficit spending in 2010-2011 is the same number as the spending on the wars you apparently love to cite ad nauseum. Yet this whole mess is solely Bush's fault.
Clearly deficits are bad. But they are not the same type of bad as a major recession. The economic collapse of 2008 was not caused by "2 useless wars."