Obama expiatório

The White House blames the George W. Bush administration for every economic woe, but the numbers speak for themselves. In 2008, the federal budget deficit was around 3 percent of gross domestic product. In 2011, it’s around 11 percent. Total federal debt was $10.7 trillion at the end of 2008 and is currently $14.6 trillion. Debt as a percentage of GDP was a painful 69 percent at the end of the Bush years, but Mr. Obama is pushing it over 100 percent, another disgraceful historic milestone. A record 45.8 million are on food stamps, and the percentage of working-aged Americans who have jobs is the lowest in three decades. According to Gallup’s daily tracking poll, in late January, 44 percent of Americans felt the economy was getting better, and 52 percent thought it was worsening. Now only 17 percent have a positive view; 77 percent understand our economy is nosediving.

EDITORIAL: Obama’s downgraded America - Washington Times

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Só um detalhe, não sou bom em matemática, mas se a dívida cresceu tanto assim de 2010 para 2011, dentre as situações comparadas não foi pelo ocorrido em 2011, mas sim pelo que se fez e se gastou no ano anterior. Ou eu não entendi ou esse editorial está nos tratando como ignorantes.

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