Deficit Chart Applied to Debt and why it's dumb to continue it

Here's something you won't see on Fox News.

I've lost track of how many times I've stated to Republicans and here on this blog that today's deficit was inherited from George Bush.  It wasn't something Barack Obama created.  When I say this stuff to my Republican friends it's like talking to a wall.  They kind of acknowledge it but then go right into saying something about how it wasn't really until Democrats took back Congress in 2007 did the deficit really rise.  Quite insane really.  They refuse to believe Republican policies led this country to a massive budget deficit.  Actually, I wrote about this whole thing just the other day.

In the same regard, the national debt is intrinsically linked to the budget deficit.  And it's clear to see from the chart above the biggest contributors to the mammoth debt we have today are direct results of Republican George Bush policies.  The greatest contributor to the debt is of course the Bush tax cuts, which President Obama has continued.  The next two are the Bush wars, which President Obama has continued.

Not only is it insane for Republicans to keep whining about a deficit and debt they created but it's probably more insane to keep continuing those policies like President Obama has.  If you are really concerned about the deficit the last thing you would do is 1) have voted to enact the policies that caused it in the first place and 2) adopt those very same budget busting policies as your own.  The whole thing smacks of some really stupid stuff.  Either you want to fix this thing or you don't.  But don't keep misleading people when the reality is very little has been done to change the policies you want to blame on other people.