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More lame deception

So easy for you to twist numbers around to deceive isn't it? Time for facts:

Bush takes office: $236B budget surplus.
Bush leaves office: $1.3T budget deficit.

Bush takes office: Annual federal spending is $1.9T
Bush leaves office: Annual federal spending is $3.7T

Bush takes office: Public debt is $5.7T
Bush leaves office: Public debt is $10.6T

Bush takes office: Debt owed to foreigners $1.01T
Bush leaves office: Debt owed to foreigners $3.06T

Almost all of these dramatic reversals were the result of Bush policy changes: deep tax cuts for the wealthiest 1% and huge spending increases.

Not only did President Obama inherit the dismal fiscal situation created by the Republican Deficit, he also inherited a country facing economic collapse. Economic growth declined dramatically from the third quarter of 2008, when there was a negative one-half of one percent of growth, to the fourth quarter of 2008, when the economy contracted at a rate of over six percent.

Ignoring the GOP record and desperate to blame Democrats, Republicans like you now don the mask of deficit hawks and demand that the President take sole responsibility for the national debt. These disingenuous attacks are indicative of a Republican Party frantic to evade the fundamental failures of its economic and fiscal policies.

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