Annual cost of Iraq war: more than $230 billion
Annual cost of Afghanistan war: $55 billion
Total Bush "budget": $3.4 trillion
Obama budget / Bush budget: 103%
Inflation rate in 2008: 3.8%
Translation: President Obama's budget for 2009 is exactly the same size as President Bush's effective budget was in 2008.
House Republican votes for President Obama's budget: zero
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