- Increased taxes 11 different times.
- Increased government spending by 103%.
- Increased Social Security solvency by $160 billion.
- Raised debt ceiling 18 times.
- Tripled the national debt.
- Grew federal public sector payroll by 61,000 employees.
- Armed, funded and aided Saddam Hussein.
- Armed, funded and aided bin Laden.
- Cut taxes twice.
- Increased government spending by 71%.
- Raised debt ceiling 19 times.
- Created largest budget deficit in history upon leaving office at $1.29 trillion
- More than doubled the national debt.
- Grew federal public sector jobs by 50,000 employees.
- Created the largest federal expansion into a national education system in American history effectively centralized all primary educational institutions and eroded local control.
- Redistributed over $1 trillion of American tax payer wealth to foreign countries to wage endless war, build roads, schools, bridges, mosques, and other infrastructure as well as to pay for and train national police forces and military personnel.
- Instituted 8 tax payer funded takeovers of private industry including, but not limited to, the takeover of 234 private banks-- all with tax payer money, TARP. By far the largest federal expansion into the American free market economy ever.
- Instituted $787 billion "stimulus bill" to revive the American economy. Tax payer money spent on tax payers and on American soil rather than in foreign countries.
- Signed $330 billion payroll tax cut.
- Followed through with $80 billion auto industry bailout setup under previous administration's TARP.
- Increased spending by 16%.
- Raised debt ceiling 2 times.
- Every policy instituted was either paid for or deficit neutral.
- Expanded health insurance to 32 million Americans.
- Forced banks to successfully repay TARP to ensure minimal costs of the program.
- Shrunk public sector jobs by over 200,000 employees.
- Repealed DADT.
Could have also easily titled this post as "Which Is More Fiscally Responsible?"
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