And we still have our guns (I was told by many that he was taking them)

Not so fast....
www.cnsnews.com/news /article/terence-p-j effrey/obama-leaves- usa-93350000000

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Imagine how much more there would have been under someone else (war hawk).

What was the national debt when GWB left office?

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@HumbleGirl Well, following the logic, Pres Obama, without being a warhawk and in concert with Congress,exceeded record tax confiscation by over $9trillion.......hypothetical speculation premise rejected.War had/ has nothing to do with it........for the last 8 years anyway.I am a Bush '43 critic.......but Pres Obama has suckled that teat way beyond reason.Pres Obama didn't give a single S**t about the economy or fiscal policy........as long as the SJW train was rolling along. First President in history to never see 3% GDP growth......we just flushed a hell of a lot of tax money down the bowl.

And it really irritates me is that Pres Obama entered office with more political capital than any in my lfetime......and he squandered it all on social issues.?...I repeat, he could not have cared less about the US economy.........he got a stimulus passed in'09 that morphed into a $7 trillion debt....someone please tell me how that contributed to growing GDP?........it didn't. And the Republicrats all enjoyed feeding from the slop tray it created.

,exceeded record tax confiscation by over $9trillion...What does that mean?I do believe we had some expenses in Afghanistan and dealing with ISIS etc.Oh and that whole financial meltdown thing, that mess must have cost a few bucks to clean up, and he bailed out the automakers and saved all those jobs.What's not to love?

@atascabob Algebra was not your best subject, huh?The increase in debt represents the borrowing we incur to pay fiscal spending above tax confiscation ?(I'll never call it revenue).........Pres Obama has overseen record collections.......and still needed more.And military spending as a function of GDP has fallen every year since 2010 ...I know, math is hard.

Oh, tax collections why didn't you say so. It's English 101.Yes while war expenses may have fallen since 2010 as a percentage of the GDP. It's still money that's spent and if borrowed counts towards the debt, no? Not sure if that's calculus or physics, but whatever.

@atascabob Didn't think it was possible for a less intectuall post, but you added on..........I'll let you get your Google on.......TARP produced a net gain to the general ledger.....The auto bailout was a net loser and rewrote the rule of law by having bond holders take a loss while preserving Union contracts....that would never happen in a formal bankruptcy.........complete and utter BS.

@atascabob I'm OK with collections as a reference.........just don't say revenue.....And It's also Algebra 101.......

Oh on the auto bailout you propose bankruptcy , loss of jobs and pennies on the dollar return on investment would have been better.And did the automakers pay back the bailout?And all those auto industry jobs being lost would have been good economically?

@atascabob The bailout produced a loss to the taxpayers.......period.No argument can be presented that the rule of law was ignored......And we all lost money......