Control Government Spending: Re-elect President Obama
TPM had made an interesting analysis of increases in government spending, neatly summarized in the following graph:
Government Spending Increases Under Five Presidents - TPM Media
At the end of their first terms, only two of the five presidents had achieved a reduction in federal spending: Clinton and Obama. Reagan and Bush I increased federal spending by 6%; Bush II by a whopping 10%.
Mark Thoma has taken the same data and graphed it per capita:
Annualized Growth in Real per Capita Government Spending - Mark Thoma
WC has called this out before. It’s utterly amazing to WC that the Republican Wannabes can make the claims about President Obama that they do. One would assume ex-senator Santorum would be afraid of being struck by lightning from his wrathful deity.
The real question isn’t wrathful, thunderbolt-weilding deities, but rather the voters, the electorate. Will they fall for the Big Lie?
This is impressive data. Thank you for sharing.
Peggy J Pierce
March 21, 2012 at 7:55 am
Not that we need encouragement to vote for our wonderful President, but we appreciate this post very much. If only more people understood how much he has done to help us avoid financial disaster, no one would even listen to Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney or any of the other clowns.
Thank you for this post.
kssunflower
March 21, 2012 at 9:02 am
Thanks a lot WC. It makes me crazy when this lie is perpetrated by the GOP. They seem to have no problem lying about the economy, how we got in this mess — and they surely show no inclination to provide solutions. Obama is simply too rational for the right.
aklucia
March 21, 2012 at 12:15 pm