Why does Obama think it is OK to raise the debt ceiling now, but was so against it when Bush was in charge?

Right-wingers want to compare Obama's first 3 months to everyone else's first months where nobody else chose to do anything. Isn't it funny? Other do nothing so it costs nothing for 3 months, he does a lot in 3 months and they whine about him spending money to achieve something.

Right-wingers love to ignore fact. They do so by cherry picking small portions of them that actually go in their favor. Kind of like statistics.

If you ignore all the data that goes against your agenda, you can make stats say anything you want.

Bush Deficit vs. Obama Deficit in Picture President Barack Obama has repeatedly claimed that his budget would cut the deficit by half by the end of his term. But as Heritage analyst Brian Riedl has pointed out, given that Obama has already helped quadruple the deficit with his stimulus package, pledging to halve it by 2013 is hardly ambitious. What’s driving Obama’s unprecedented massive deficits?

Spending. Riedl details: •President Bush expanded the federal budget by a historic $700 billion through 2008. President Obama would add another $1 trillion.

•President Bush began a string of expensive finan­cial bailouts. President Obama is accelerating that course. •President Bush created a Medicare drug entitle­ment that will cost an estimated $800 billion in its first decade.

President Obama has proposed a $634 billion down payment on a new govern­ment health care fund. •President Bush increased federal education spending 58 percent faster than inflation. Presi­dent Obama would double it.

•President Bush became the first President to spend 3 percent of GDP on federal antipoverty programs. President Obama has already in­creased this spending by 20 percent. •President Bush tilted the income tax burden more toward upper-income taxpayers.

President Obama would continue that trend. •President Bush presided over a $2.5 trillion increase in the public debt through 2008. Setting aside 2009 (for which Presidents Bush and Obama share responsibility for an additional $2.6 trillion in public debt), President Obama’s budget would add $4.9 trillion in public debt from the beginning of 2010 through 2016.

UPDATE: Many Obama defenders in the comments are claiming that the numbers above do not include spending on Iraq and Afghanistan during the Bush years. They most certainly do. While Bush did fund the wars through emergency supplementals (not the regular budget process), that spending did not simply vanish.

It is included in the numbers above. Also, some Obama defenders are claiming the graphic above represents biased Heritage Foundation numbers. While we stand behind the numbers we put out 100%, the numbers, and the graphic itself, above are from the Washington Post.

We originally left out the link to WaPo. It has now been added. CLARIFICATION: Of course, this Washington Post graphic does not perfectly delineate budget surpluses and deficits by administration.

President Bush took office in January 2001, and therefore played a lead role in crafting the FY 2002-2008 budgets. Presidents Bush and Obama share responsibility for the FY 2009 budget deficit that overlaps their administrations, before President Obama assumes full budgetary responsibility beginning in FY 2010. Overall, President Obama’s budget would add twice as much debt as President Bush over the same number of years.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.