
Originally Posted by
Tock
Well, it would be one thing if Bush and the Republicans had lived up to their reputations as fiscal conservatives. But they didn't.
Bush didn't include the $$$ spent and pledged for the war in his budget in his figures; kept all that info off the books.
O'Bama includes everything.
Add to that the crazy lending practices that the banks were doing, thanks to the federal regulators not having the foggiest idea what the bankers were doing. And you can thank the Republicans making sure that banking experts were hired to oversee them; instead, all the Bush administration hired were lawyers.
On Bush's watch, the banks screwed up multi-Trillions of $$$ in mortgage loans. Plus his administration (most notably the VP) lied about what Saddam Hussain was up to, and since Bush was too stupid to know what was really going on, he authorized a needless war, which got thousands of Americans needlessly killed, and plunged America even further into debt.
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Even after all that, the American people still don't have a clue about how to vote.