"If I can stop this great country from unraveling, then I want to be an obstructionist. If I'm going to be held accountable for holding this government accountable, amen."~Rep. Mike Kelly,
Pennsylvania congressman speaking to finalizing the national budget. Obama wants to print more money; Republicans want to lower the debt.
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Although you'll never hear it from the people you're listening to, you do realize that:
"In 2009, the first year of Obama’s presidency, after tax cuts and new spending, the deficit was 10.1 percent of GDP. In 2012, the deficit declined to 7 percent of GDP. So that’s a decline of 3.1 percentage points.
You have to go back 63 years to the period between 1946 and 1949 to find a bigger four-year drop than what the country saw between 2009 and 2012. Right after World War II ended, the U.S. deficit stood at 7.2 percent of GDP. By 1949, America had a surplus of 0.2 percent. So that’s a decline of 7.4 percentage points."
-Politifact, July 24, 2013
Hey, but Benghazi and Fast Furious!
Federal hiring is also at historically low numbers under Obama but listening to the right's caterwalling you would think Obama's going to bankrupt the country through federal hiring.
Hey, but the IRS "scandal" and the AP "scandal" sure are keeping fox news busy.
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