Short Civics Lesson - October 23, 2011

I found this on Craigslist of all places, and I thought it was pretty cool. The basic premise is correct and I wish I knew who actually wrote this. It's a reminder of the checks & balances in place in Government and WHO is actually responsible for the large debts our country now faces. Congress controls the checkbooks and spends the money and from 2006 - 2010, that was the Democrats. And even now, they still control the Senate AND the Presidency - majority control of the government. So all of these debts are the Republican's faults??? Okay, I hear ya. Check this out. 'Nuff said!

Short Civics Lesson

The Washington Post babbled again today about Obama inheriting a huge deficit from Bush. Amazingly enough, a lot of people swallow this BULL.

So once more, a short civics lesson:

Budgets do not come from the White House. They come from Congress and the party that controlled Congress since January 2007 is the Democratic Party.

Furthermore, the Democrats controlled the budget process for 2008 & 2009 as well as 2010 &2011.

In that first year, they had to contend with George Bush, which caused them to compromise on spending, when Bush somewhat belatedly got tough on spending increases.

For 2009 though, Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid bypassed George Bush entirely, passing continuing resolutions to keep government running until Barack Obama could take office. At that time, they passed a massive omnibus spending bill to complete the
2009 budgets.

And where was Barack Obama during this time? He was a member of that very Congress that passed all of these massive spending bills, and he signed the omnibus bill as President to complete 2009. Let's remember what the deficits looked like during that period.

If the Democrats inherited any deficit, it was the 2007 deficit, the last of the Republican budgets. That deficit was the lowest in five years, and the fourth straight decline in deficit spending. After that, Democrats in Congress took control of spending, and that includes Barack Obama, who voted for the budgets.

If Obama inherited anything, he inherited it from himself.

In a nutshell, what Obama is saying is I inherited a deficit that I voted for
and then I voted to expand that deficit four-fold since January 20, 2009..

There is no way this will be widely publicized, unless each of us sends it on!
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