I will protect your pensions. Nothing about your pension is going to change when I am governor. - Chris Christie, "An Open Letter to the Teachers of NJ" October, 2009

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

World's Greatest Graph

Courtesy of the NY Times and the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities:


In other words: the debt exploded thanks to Bush/Republican tax cuts (which went mostly to the wealthy), wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Great Recession (Bush's legacy), and the Medicare Part D giveaway to drug companies.

The notion that Obama has spent us into massive debt is a lie, and anyone who says so is a lying liar.

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