o'bamanomics - Facts based on the government's own figures

From: jrp Sent: Monday, August 23, 2010 Subject: If you read only one email from me...Facts based on the government's own figures

Read the article at this link: http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/08/iraq_the_war_that_broke_us_not.html 

Then you will understand this:

So the following are facts, based on the government's own figures.

• Obama's stimulus, passed in his first month in office, will cost more than the entire Iraq War -- more than $100 billion (15%) more.
  
• Just the first two years of Obama's stimulus cost more than the entire cost of the Iraq War under President Bush, or six years of that war.
  
• Iraq War spending accounted for just 3.2% of all federal spending while it lasted.
  
• Iraq War spending was not even one quarter of what we spent on Medicare in the same time frame.
  
• Iraq War spending was not even 15% of the total deficit spending in that time frame. The cumulative deficit, 2003-2010, would have been four-point-something trillion dollars with or without the Iraq War.
  
• The Iraq War accounts for less than 8% of the federal debt held by the public at the end of 2010 ($9.031 trillion).
  
• During Bush's Iraq years, 2003-2008, the federal government spent more on education that it did on the Iraq War. (State and local governments spent about ten times more.)

Come November 2 - vote to kick this spend-until-it-kills-you congress out of office!  Time for a change to the right!

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