Answer to nutjobs whining about Obama raising the national debt

[JaneQPublic]

Show them the below chart. (Original from http://zfacts.com/p/318.html)

Point out that the national debt actually went down during recent Dem presidents and up dramatically during recent GOP presidents.

Ask them where was their outrage when Ronnie and both Georges were putting their grandchildren into debt. How many town hall forums did they disrupt then?

[atreides1]

1. Yeah That Works

Showing them the facts!

[av8rdave]

2. Facts never work with those people

[unpossibles]

3. I wish it did work

Sadly, they won't hear it.

[Clio the Leo]

4. WHY isn't PAYGO getting more attention?

This blows my mind.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/06/president-obama-paygo-and-the-deficit-hole.html

[JaneQPublic]

5. Interesting article

Pay-Go was in effect during the Clinton Administration, but lifted during Dubya.

Of course, the right-wing nutjobs claim the budget surplus under Clinton was a delayed outcome of Ronnie's policies.

[thereismore]

6. I don't like the horizontal line under Obama. It is just confusing. How can his name be

contemporaneous with George F Bush?

[JaneQPublic]

11. Perhaps the reason for the horizaontal line is...

...that a vertical line to separate Dubya from Obama would overlap the vertical graphline indicating the sharp increase in debt under Dubya.

[RepublicanElephant]

7. print and take to a townhall meeting. nt

[Cha]

9. Good Idea..Print it out..take it to a meeting

with you all. My congressman blue dog had his on the telephone.

[krispos42]

8. Andmore...

[JaneQPublic]

12. That's a good one, too. (nt)

[dkf]

10. Well the national debt is my #2 concern after renewable energy

and I knew W was going to fuck it up and that is why I so dearly wanted us to win back the White House.

Seeing as how we already spend so much more on health care than everyone else and get worse results, it ought to be possible that we can cover everyone AND save money, but Obama has not proposed a plan that will get us there.

We ought not to be drowning our future in debt. Debt is the way to a loss of control and the tool for others to make us bow to them. I HATE DEBT. HATE IT HATE IT HATE IT.

[samsingh]

13. nutjobs are just that - their leader - bush - raised the deficit

we are trying to bring it back in line.

[samsingh]

14. conservatives raise deficits and take the money for themselves

[JaneQPublic]

15. Like Howard Dean always says...

...you can't trust Republicans with money.

[samsingh]

16. or anything else