You did not blame him for ALL the debt, but your graphs essentially did...by picking and choosing what programs to count as deficit drivers -- they just so happened to pick nothing but Bush programs.
The CBO has reported that tax revenues are back at their 2007 historic high -- so the argument that we are facing less revenue due to the downturn simply does not stand up to reality. I don't blame Obama for the collapse, but I blame him for a horrible response to it.
Bush ran deficits -- no one argues that point. Bush is responsible for some problems -- no one argues that point. Obama has run 4 straight trillion dollar deficits (with no end in sight), but none of it is his fault?
The stimulus, that "one time" $800 billion spending spree we went on belongs solely to Obama. Since that is now apparently a yearly occurance and has increased the CBO baseline by $800 billion a year (a massive chunk of the deficit), I think you would be hard pressed to blame anyone for that other than Obama.
You did not give a link -- you claimed that it costs the US $700 billion a year to service Bush debt. I pointed out the actual Treasury figures (with a link) that are nowhere close to that and got no response.
And again, why can't anyone talk about the other massive programs that are driving the debt?
- Washington set to tax $33 trillion and spend $46 trillion over the next decade, how does one determine which policies will "cause" this $13 trillion deficit?
- Social Security ($9.2 trillion over 10 years)
- Antipoverty programs ($7 trillion)
- Other Medicare spending ($5.4 trillion)
- Net interest on the debt ($6.1 trillion)
- Non-defense discretionary spending ($7.5 trillion)
None of this apparently counts -- and it the "wars and tax cuts" that caused the debt. Seems to me I can easily say its Social Security and Medicare that is the problem -- after all, that amounts to $1.3 trillion (roughly) in spending a year.
No one is ridiculing your posts for the most part -- people question them, and statements backed up by solid facts stand up to such questioning.
