Basic math has never been a requirement for the GOP. Funny how quickly they forgot the former VP’s comment that Reagan proved deficits don’t matter. They do matter, but only when they add up during a Democratic presidents term. Troglodytes.

Using accounting schemes to hide expenditures and give the illusion that previous budget deficits were under control only satisfies the naive. With one brief exception we have been running deficits and accumulating debt for decades. Moreover, with the exception of the Recovery Act (stimulus) President Obama inherited the rest from his predecessor, including dramatic drops in revenues from the Great Recession; the rest was all programmatic and unless Americans are in favor to shut down SS, MEDICARE, MEDICAID, replace our armed forces with boy scouts, and default on the debt, the only way to get out of this mess is pay for what we need and benefit from. What the GOP does not understand – or cynically distorts – is the fact that when they advocate lower tax rates for the super rich, more subsidies, more loopholes, and less regulation they are, in effect, increasing our budget deficits and accumulating more debt, while at the same time putting forth a recipe to transform the USA into a Third World country.

No matter how the debt clock ticked away under Bush, the debt clock under Obama exploded at twice the rate. The Bush recession ended in 2009, and the income of Americans under Obama’s recovery is LESS than the income under the recession. Bush did have Katrina & the costs of 911, and the subprime loan fiasco created by complete Democrat control during Bush’s last 2 years.
ENough of the Bush hate, Obama is leading this country into financial ruin for everyone.

I think we are getting into alot of trouble here by Willard Mitt Romney and friends. “Oh, you got trouble here, right in River City” as sung in the Music man. Mitt is going to give the rich more money and throw the rest of us in the poor house or living in box carts on the street. ” Oh, you got trouble, trouble, trouble”

One fact the republicans conveniently ignore is the fact that all of the accumulated debt keeps accumulating more debt because of the interest owed on the existing debt. On January 20, 2009, the day that President Obama was sworn into office, we had a dead-man at the controls, in the personage of George W. Bush. The economy, the U.S. reputation in the world, as well as our national security were all careening out of control down into the abyss. It was necessary to move the dead-body out from behind the controls, and then try to steer the economy toward safety, while applying the brakes… Retro-mega-thrusters… just to slow downward spiraling into the toilet. On that day, according to BARRON’S, the National Debt was $10.7 trillion. Add to that the budget for fiscal 2009 {Bush’s last} another $1.3 trillion in deficit spending… $10.7 trillion + $1.3 trillion = $12 trillion!!! Then there were another couple of trillion dollars hidden off the books. The budget deficit would be $1.3 trillion or so a year into the foreseeable future because TAX REVENUES were down, due to the 8.5 million jobs that were lost under the Bush economy. The $1 trillion dollars that President Obama used as the “brakes,” the retro-mega-thrusters to reverse the downward flush into the toilet, was a necessary and approriate measure to take in order to preserve our Country. The only reason for spending on that scale was to bolster the spending power of all those who lost their jobs under the Bush Trickle-down Tax Cuts which Governor Romney is determined to resume… if elected. This opinion comes from Real Job Creators like Bill Gates and Waren Buffet… industrialists who have far more credibility than Mitt Romney. Considering the fact that Mr. Bush left us with a current debt of $12 trillion, and based upon recurring deficits, a projected debt of at least $1 trillion/year through Mr. Obama’s first term, and the fact that the “Do Nothing Congress” did nothing but lie, hate, and obstruct since January 2009, the entirety of the $16 trillion national debt, + interest on it, can be attributed to these sore loser republicans coming out of the Bush Collapse. President Obama managed to cut spending greatly by bringing a halt to the Iraq War, an unnecessary and costly exercise to find non-existing Weapons of Mass Destruction! Also, the whittling down of the War in Afghanistan, which shouldn’t have ever been more than a speical forces operation in the first place. We knew who Osama Bin Laden and the Al Qaeda were… because we trained them!!! Yeah, they were our weapon for the war of hegemony in the region against the Soviet Union. Republicans tell so many lies they can’t remember which lies they relied upon when. President Obama has stabilized an economy destroyed by the republicans and their Wall Street hucksters. Doesn’t anyone remember Bear Sterns, Washington Mutual, Lehman Brothers, Enron, AIG, etc. What the hell is the matter with us??? Willful ignorance? Cowardice? Stupidity? And to hear those liars at the convention misrepresent where we are nad how we got here! Chris Christie has a lot of nerve! That fat, greasy, undisciplined, obese pig of a man can’t even manage what he puts in his mouth… yet he wants to disparage a man whoes shoes he is not fit to shine! Ann Romney is a nice lady… but she isn’t running for President… her husband is, and its high time he came out from hiding behind the skirt of his wife, and his Tax-dodging privileges, as well as his draft-dogging, and represent himself like a man. He is bought and paid for. The only thing he understand is money, and those who back him are his masters.

I read only two or three lines of your dribble. Chew on this…your beloved Obama promised to reduce the deficite by 50% during his first term. Instead he increased it by 50%. All of your hate filled insults cannot change this fact.

I dont know what happened to my post so Ill try it again . This article asks where the debt clocks were at previous conventions . I would suppose they weren’t there because they werent an issue . Now however , Obama has spent more in 3 years then all 43 Presidents have in the History of America COMBINED …Let that sink in ..To spend at this rate Obama is borrowing 38 to 40 cents for every dollar he spends . On top of that the spending is mostly going to reward his donors ( solyndra GE GM ) . So he is spending and borrowing our future away . That is why it is an issue today . Why Is he doing it . Well in typical DEM fashion he is paying back his friends and donors . He also seems hell bent on destroying the American economy . This is probably for a variety of reasons . Obama views America as an evil Country because his daddy( if that was his real daddy) the Communist , believed it was unfair for America to have so much while other Countries didn’t . Well Maybe if these Countries had a Free Market Economy , a Vibrant Private Sector , and a Representative form of Govt they would be more succesful , self sufficient , and less envious . Obama on the other hand doesn’t see that it is because we as a Country have achieved so much , that it is the reason we can help so many other Nations in their times of need . He views America as evil he doesn’t recognize that we have been the greatest force for good on this planet . Yes America has made mistakes but on balance we are the greatest force of good . Obama apologizes for us and is ashamed of American Exceptionalism . He views us as overbearing to our neighbors …Ask Haiti who helped them . Or all of Indonesia after the tsunami ? Obama seems hell bent on making us over into a Socialist Nation like all those failed examples in Europe . He believes if we are second rate other Nations will accept us better