Friday, April 3, 2009

Party of No

Size of President Bush's last budget: $3.1 trillion (not including Iraq or Afghanistan wars)
Annual cost of Iraq war: more than $230 billion
Annual cost of Afghanistan war: $55 billion
Total Bush "budget": $3.4 trillion

Size of President Obama's budget: $3.5 trillion (including Iraq and Afghanistan wars)

Obama budget / Bush budget: 103%


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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