Big Spenders, All

Courtesy Donklephant  Thu, 11/19/2009 - 11:29am

The deficit explosion under the Obama administration is a common complaint by fiscal conservatives, and is often represented with a graph such as this one, courtesy of the libertarian think-tank, Cato.org :

[Editor's Note: the chart cannot be displayed; please check the link for the charts mentioned in this post]

However, as Cato points out, the fiscal year starts in October of each year, and the budget for 2009 was signed into law by President Bush....


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