Reply #10: Previous president sets the budget for the first year, but in 2009 it was not followed

[Southerner]

According to this:

http://www.gpoaccess.gov/usbudget/fy09/pdf/budget/tables.pdf

The 2009 Bush budget had:
2.7 billion in estimated receipts with $3.1 billion in outlays - a $400 billion projected deficit of which there are a hundred online newspaper articles from 2008 that are heavily critical of this.

According to the historical tables in here:

http://www.gpoaccess.gov/usbudget/fy11/hist.html

The actual outlays for 2009 were $3.5 billion and not the $3.1 billion budgeted by Bush. Keep in mind this is just the general budget and does not include TARP, the Stimulus Bill, and the $130 billion or so spent on the wars that year.

I voted for Obama and had high hopes but sorry people, he spent us into the toilet. People here need to stop blaming Bush for the deficit as the numbers only partially agree with that.

I'm eager to see who else will step up to run instead of Obama. I want somebody who will implement progressive ideals but won't bankrupt us in the process.