Posted by
Defend America on Thursday, October 01, 2009 8:18:52 AM
Making Bush Look Like a Piker
By Veronique de Rugy
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Filed under:
Economic Policy,
Government & Politics,
Numbers
The Bush-era deficits were bad. I know. I spent eight years complaining about them. How does President Obama stack up?
Based on Congressional Budget Office (CBO) data, the following chart
shows a projection of deficit numbers for each year until fiscal 2018.
Each color represents the difference between the projected deficits at
different points in time. The purple bars represent the deficit numbers
as they were projected back in September 2008; the black and red bars
represent the difference between the projected deficits at other points
in time. The black bars represent the growth in the projected deficit
numbers between September 2008 and January 2009. The red bars represent
the difference between the January 2009 projections and the new deficit
numbers as projected in August 2009. Finally, the orange bars represent
the actual deficit numbers during President Clinton’s last year in
office (fiscal 2001) and President Bush’s two terms.
http://www.american.com/archive/2009/september/making-bush-look-like-a-piker