hey Minte, look what I found in a 30 second google search:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123137375313762735.html
"""The Congressional Budget Office released its latest budget forecast yesterday, and we now really do have red ink as far as the eye can see. Thanks to a 6.6% decline in revenues due to recession, a spending increase of some $500 billion or 19%, and assorted federal bailouts, the U.S. deficit for fiscal 2009 (ending September 30) will nearly triple to $1.19 trillion. That's 8.3% of GDP, which CBO says "
will most likely shatter the previous post-World War II record high of 6.0 percent posted in 1983." It certainly blows away any deficit this decade, not to mention the Reagan years when smaller deficits were the media cause celebre."""
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Un...federal_budget
2009 deficit spending: $1.4 trillion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Un...federal_budget
2010 deficit spending: $1.17 trillion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Un...federal_budget
2011 deficit spending: $1.6 trillion.
Minte, being a successful business owner, I'm sure you can do the math but indulge me.....
1.4 trillion plus 1.17 trillion plus 1.6 trillion = $4.17 trillion dollars obama has raised the debt by. faster than any other president in history.
so in conclusion, Minte, You are right.
don't bother arguing with me, you're right.