Of course Obamas total defense spending is going to be higher when he came into office with a 600 billion a year defense budget and Bush came into office with a 300 billion a year budget.Thats not mental gymnastics thats common sense.mental gymnastics is trying to argue Bush was more responsible with defense spending when he doubled it and Obama kept it the same. I guess you will try to argue next than Bush was more responsible with the overall budget even though he took a 200 billion dollar a year budget surplus and turned it into a 1.2 trillion dollar a year deficit while Obama took a 1.2 trillion dollar deficit and turned it into a 600 billion dollar a year deficit.
And that makes you and Obama part of the problem. The number one responsibility of The US government is defense.
If republicans in Congress are so responsible with the budget why have they let the deficit increase 400 billion dollars a year in the last 2 years? When Obama was President the deficit declined 600 billion a year.
The national debt that Obama left the nation is much more significant than any claim about the national dollar deficit he inherited - the Obama national debt is an order of magnitude greater than 1.2 trillion.
The 1.2 trillion dollar deficit is the main reason for the debt.deficits lead to debt,you should know that.Thankfully Obama lowered the deficit more than any other President.
The deficit was not the main reason for the debt. Obama's policies are the main reason for the debt. This should be obvious to any rational person who can do basic math.