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Warrior-Mentor
11-26-2009, 15:58
Obama Shatters Spending Record for First-Year Presidents
FOXNews.com
November 24, 2009

The federal government spent $3.5 trillion during President Obama's first year in office. This far exceeds the spending for any other first-year president.

President Obama has shattered the budget record for first-year presidents -- spending nearly double what his predecessor did when he came into office and far exceeding the first-year tabs for any other U.S. president in history.

In fiscal 2009 the federal government spent $3.52 trillion -- $2.8 trillion in 2000 dollars, which sets a benchmark for comparison. That fiscal year covered the last three-and-a-half months of George W. Bush's term and the first eight-and-a-half months of Obama's.

That price tag came with a $1.4 trillion deficit, nearly $1 trillion more than last year. The overall budget was about a half-trillion more than Bush's for 2008, his final full fiscal year in office.

That's a big increase. But compared with other presidents' first years in office, Obama is running circles around them.

Bush spent $1.8 trillion in 2001, according to government budget figures that have been adjusted for inflation based on 2000 dollars. Using the same formula, former President Bill Clinton spent $1.6 trillion in 1993.

The last president to clock in under $1 trillion was Gerald Ford, who logged a $982 billion budget in 1975. Post-war Dwight Eisenhower even brought Uncle Sam's tab down to $556 billion in his first year, 1953.

Obama's first-year budget, adjusted for inflation, is about five times that. His 2009 budget is also close to 21 percent of that for Clinton's eight years in office -- Clinton's spending added up to $13.5 trillion over his two full terms. Bush spent $16.8 trillion from 2001-2008.


SOURCE:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/11/24/obama-shatters-spending-record-year-presidents

Warrior-Mentor
11-26-2009, 16:04
"Economic Jihad is accomplishing what bin laden described in his December 27, 2001 message:

'The economic bleeding is continuing to date, but it requires further strikes.
The young people should make an effort to look for the key pillars of the US economy.
The key pillars of the enemy should be struck. Allah willing.'"

From "Understanding Sharia Finance: The Muslim Challenge to Western Economics" by Patrick Sookhdeo, page 37.

kimberly
11-26-2009, 17:19
Not surprising. His wife spends more than any other first lady to date. Her staff and the expense of paying them alone exceeds all others many times over.

greyshade
11-26-2009, 19:12
An interesting video that hammers the point home... The author also states sources below the video.

http://politicalmath.wordpress.com/2009/05/15/the-national-debt-road-trip/

ZonieDiver
11-26-2009, 20:17
"He" is also unprecedented in his use of the word "unprecedented"!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20091125/pl_politico/29896