It’s quite apparent that Republicans and Democrats see things differently. That observation explains why an obvious mathematical fact is still being debated and questioned by Republicans. Picture a Democrat looking at the equation 1+1 and coming up with the correct answer of 2, and a Republican looking at the same equation and coming up with 11 as their answer.
Consider Mitt Romney for example. He was famous for repeating an obvious and proven lie. He often said, “since President Obama assumed office three years ago, federal spending has accelerated at a pace without precedent in recent history.”
Bob Cesca from the Huffington Post called this Romney claim a super-colossal lie.
With the end of fiscal year 2012, the Congressional Budget Office announced the 2012 federal budget deficit: $1.1 trillion. Taken purely at face value, this number is enormous. Yet every Democrat, and especially the Obama campaign, ought to be telling anyone who will listen: Not only has the president cut the deficit by $312 billion during his first term (so far), but he’s cut the deficit by $200 billion in the past year alone. And the CBO projected that the 2013 Obama budget, if enacted as is, would shrink the deficit to $977 billion — a four year total of nearly $500 billion in deficit reduction.
Okay, yeah, I get it. It’s risky to mention the deficit, but not when you couch it in math and the facts.
As I’ve documented before, the CBO reported in January, 2009 that the federal budget deficit for that fiscal year, which began on October 1, 2008, was already $1.2 trillion. President Obama’s additional ’09 spending added another $200 billion to the deficit, bringing the total to $1.412 trillion. Unprecedented and huge, but given the enormity of the financial crisis and the depth of the recession, there weren’t many other options on the table. Add two wars into the mix and there you go.
But since then, deficit spending has dropped precipitously. Why? Chiefly because President Obama signed the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act in February, 2010, which mandates that new spending be offset with spending cuts or new revenue. Yes, a Democratic president and a Democratic Congress passed this legislation. Guess how many congressional Republicans voted for the law. Zero. Not one. Perhaps during this week’s debate, Vice President Biden could ask Rep. Paul Ryan who voted against the bill.
Consequently, the president is responsible for the lowest government spending growth in 60 years,according to the Wall Street Journal‘s Market Watch.
But we shouldn’t be alarmed that Republicans apparently have their own Math standards. To them, 1+1=11, Obama is the biggest spender in the history of American presidents and their Mitt Romney actually won the November election. Of course he won, that’s what all their math experts claimed.
These people are hopeless!
