Obama Has Lowest Spending Record of Any Recent President

You can dispute whether or not which policy benefited Obama or not. But the fact remains those increases were what they were. Doesn't matter if 2009 was an extraordinary year.

By the same logic, we had an extraordinary recession and maybe Obama shouldn't be blamed for the terrible deficits when he is trying to jump start the economy.

You conservatives want to have it both ways. PICK ONE AND STICK TO IT!

Either you nail obama to the wall for the deficit - much of which isn't his fault. Fine. But now you want to take that back and say he can't get credit for certain things because he had nothing to do with them.

He had nothing to do with the recession, the bush tax cuts, or the wars either as president. So which way is it?

 

You are the first person in history to label the AP as 'You conservatives'

 

I am not talking about the AP, I am talking about you and your gang on this board! Seriously, are you that dense?

 

I haven't given an opinion on the subject so obviously you aren't talking about me.

 

That's the most laughable lie you've ever made on this forum.

 

point me where I posted my opinions on Obama's 'lowest spending record' claim in this thread? You could just say 'oops my bad' .

 

Boy - you really just make massive assumptions. Where did I say I was limiting the scope to this thread? You think this thread is some sort of micro-bubble and anything you have written in any other thread doesn't count?

 

Doesn't Congress create the budget, and the President signs off on it?

 

Should be able to? Yes. Will be able to? That would require a level of confidence in the brain trust in Congress, on both sides of the aisle, that I simply do not have.

 

The last line, "average annual spending" of 3% is STILL lower than everyone else on the list.

 

The existence of this thread almost convinces me that reality itself is subjective.

 

More info on Obama's spending



CHART: The Gobsmacking Drop In Government Spending Under Obama

The conventional wisdom that President Obama has overseen a dramatic surge in government spending has always been shaky. But it faces perhaps its starkest rebuttal in new figures that reveal the sharpest decline of the last half-century in real federal, state and local spending during this presidency.

Perhaps not coincidentally, the new figures in the Federal Reserve Economic Data arrive just days after a lousy jobs report that has exacerbated fears that the economy may be in worse shape than expected. In recent years, state and local governments have received little federal aid to close their budget shortfalls and have therefore made large spending cuts since Obama’s 2009 stimulus expired.

“That saps demand still further aggravating a downturn and inhibiting a recovery,” said Chad Stone, chief economist for the liberal-leaning Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. “State fiscal assistance in the 2009 recovery act was largely gone by 2011 and state spending cutbacks continued due to pressures for budget austerity in many states and at the federal level.”

The government spending cuts have come about amid a mood of austerity incubated by Republicans across the country shortly after Obama took office.