Was they manipulated federal government outlays to:
1) Create the recession by reducing outlays
2) Create the large increase in outlays so that Obama's first budget was a huge increase.
Since Obama took office in 2009 (he had Bush's final approved budget. When conservatives talk about Obama's run away spending; this is what they are talking about.
You can see in the graph that the rate of increase for 2007 and 2008 were reduced for some reason, and then increased dramatically in 2009.
They caused the recession (possibly intentionally) and then 'created' runaway spending just before Obama took office.
Of course some of the increase in 2009 was because of TARP. Check the numbers yourself, but it looks like a setup to me. Of course if you look at a graph showing just outlays beginning in 2007; it looks like Obama has gone crazy with the budget, but the reality is that it was Bush's final budget that was such a huge increase, and the increase had slowed just before that.
It's very deceptive, but the conservatives but into it.
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