Bush vs Obama ...some quick facts

For my antagonizer Ema Nymton (no intestinal fortitude to identify him/herself notmy name spelled backwards...but we know is from Virginia) we offer some more fact-of-the-matter facts that are factual truths and also accepted truths for those in the know. Sorry Ema, you just cannot come up with justifiable excuses this time...or any other time for that matter. ~ Norman E. Hooben

Quick facts, via Heritage and WAPO: Bush vs Obama

• President Bush expanded the federal budget by a historic $700 billion through 2008. President Obama would add another $1 trillion.
• President Bush began a string of expensive finan­cial bailouts. President Obama is accelerating that course.
• President Bush created a Medicare drug entitle­ment that will cost an estimated $800 billion in its first decade. President Obama has proposed a $634 billion down payment on a new govern­ment health care fund.
• President Bush increased federal education spending 58 percent faster than inflation. Presi­dent Obama would double it.
• President Bush became the first President to spend 3 percent of GDP on federal antipoverty programs. President Obama has already in­creased this spending by 20 percent.
• President Bush tilted the income tax burden more toward upper-income taxpayers. President Obama would continue that trend.

• President Bush presided over a $2.5 trillion increase in the public debt through 2008. Setting aside 2009 (for which Presidents Bush and Obama share responsibility for an additional $2.6 trillion in public debt), President Obama’s budget would add $4.9 trillion in public debt from the beginning of 2010 through 2016.

Thanks to Wake Up America for the above summary.