noted that looking at the Fiscal Years 2009 and 2010, Obama's spending went up only slightly.
However, Obama is definitely not entirely responsible for this as I pointed out in cmt 4 because the Republicans were filibustering everything he tried to do. they threatened to force a United States default on its debt and demanded cuts to discretionary spending as the price to not force a U.S. default on its debt. They also threatened a Government shut-down unless Obama agreeed to further cuts to government programs - which they got.
The Republicans also filibustered and killed several jobs bills which did reduce Government spending but which also torpedoed the recovery to their Trickle Down - Deregulation disaster. By one estimate Republicans obstructed 4.2 million jobs ("Natural Born Job Killers: : Republicans Obstructed over 4.2 million Jobs" http://www.politicususa.com/natural-born-job-killers-republicans-obstruct-4-2-million-jobs.html)
The threat of a Government default and Government shutdown scared business managers and has caused them to be very wary of hiring back full-time permanent employees further sabotaging the recovery (I gave you a link to an article in USA Today and the Atlantic pointing out that businesses are holding off hiring and sitting on a 'mountain of cash' estimated to be in the Trillions of dollars). I gave you a link to an article from the Wall Street Journal entitled "Unemployment Rate Without Government Cuts: 7.1%" ( http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2012/05/08/unemployment-rate-without-government-cuts-7-1/ ) showing the impact to the recovery of cuts to Government programs forced by the Republican insurgency (see link in cmt 4 to "Let's Just say it: the Republicans are the Problem" - Ornstein and Mann).
That's why we are still in this REPUBLICAN DYSTOPIA.
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