Please read this very carefully and let it soak in … Whose fault is this
problem we have?
This tells the story, why Bush was so bad at the end of his term.
Don’t just skim over this, it’s not very long, read it slowly and let it
sink in. If in doubt, check it out!
The day the Democrats took over was not January 22nd, 2009; it was actually
January 3rd, 2007. That was the day the Democrats took over the House of
Representatives and the Senate, at the very start of the 110th Congress.
The Democrat Party controlled a majority in both chambers for the first time
since the end of the 103rd Congress in 1995.
For those who are listening to the liberals propagating the fallacy that
everything is “Bush’s Fault,” think about this:
January 3rd, 2007 was the day the Democrats took over the Senate and the
Congress. At the time: The Dow Jones closed at 12,621.77; The GDP for the
previous quarter was 3.5%; The unemployment rate was 4.6%.
George Bush’s economic policies had set a record of 52 straight months of
job growth.
Remember the day …
January 3rd, 2007 was the day that Barney Frank took over the House
Financial Services Committee and Chris Dodd took over the Senate Banking
Committee.
The economic meltdown that happened 15 months later was in what part of the
economy? Banking and financial services!
What was the Democratic response to this crisis among MANY other things):
dumping 5-6 trillion dollars of toxic loans on the economy from YOUR Fannie
Mae and Freddie Mac!
Bush asked Congress 17 TIMES to stop Fannie and Freddie – starting in 2001
because it was financially risky for the US economy.
And who took the THIRD highest pay-off from Fannie Mae AND Freddie Mac?
OBAMA!
And who fought against reform of Fannie and Freddie? OBAMA and the Democrat
Congress! So when someone tries to blame Bush.
Remember January 3rd, 2007 … The day the Democrats took over!
Budgets do not come from the White House. They come from Congress and the
party that controlled Congress since January 2007 is the Democrat Party.
Furthermore, the Democrats controlled the budget process for 2008 and 2009
as well as 2010 and 2011. In that first year, they had to contend with
George Bush, which caused them to compromise on spending, when Bush somewhat
belatedly got tough on spending increases.
For 2009 though, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid bypassed George Bush entirely,
passing continuing resolutions to keep government running until Barack Obama
could take office. At that time, they passed a massive omnibus spending bill
to complete the 2009 budgets.
And where was Barack Obama during this time? He was a member of that very
Congress that passed all of these massive spending bills and he signed the
omnibus bill as President to complete 2009.
If the Democrats inherited any deficit, it was the 2007 deficit, the last of
the Republican budgets. That deficit was the lowest in five years, and the
fourth straight decline in deficit spending. After that, Democrats in
Congress took control of spending and that includes Barack Obama, who voted
for the budgets.
If Obama inherited anything, he inherited it from himself. In a nutshell,
what Obama is saying is I inherited a deficit that I voted for and then I
voted to expand that deficit four-fold since January 20th.
There is no way this will be widely publicized,unless each of us sends it
on!