Where Have The Tea Baggers Been?
The people taking to the streets to protest “big government” and out-of-control spending are a little late getting into the game. The massive federal budget deficit didn’t just happen when Obama took office, as this article clearly points out. It’s been many years in the making.
A huge reduction in tax receipts, thanks to the tanked economy, is a big factor in the deficit. Also, Bush administration initiatives that have been adopted by Obama (Iraq, Afghanistan, middle class tax cuts, Medicare drug benefits) have for years and continue to push us into the red. Obama’s initiatives, including the stimulus package, account for just 10% of deficit spending.
I know I’ll be lambasted by the right for “blaming it all on Bush” (I know, a two term president who’s now out of office should be free from citicism). But Obama does deserve a knock or two for not confronting the reality of the deficits and how to deal them over the long term.
So my question to the ”Tea Partiers” is, what’s taken you so long?
August 7th, 2009 at 12:04 pm
If Bush had suggested anything Obama’s currently pushing, they’d be behind it fully. {In fact he had, getting to that.} We don’t blame it all on Bush, we blame it on the president In The Office At That Time Influencing Those Policies, and the stuff being preblamed on Obama’s Presidency were instated during GWB’s reign beeefore he got into office. These were, many of the stuff being they’re tea’d off about, Bush’s policies. The Tea-sters should be Happy! Blame thinks small.