{"id":188,"date":"2010-07-13T23:56:08","date_gmt":"2010-07-14T03:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/?p=188"},"modified":"2010-07-13T23:56:08","modified_gmt":"2010-07-14T03:56:08","slug":"obamas-out-of-control-spending-and-oil-spill-response-some-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/13\/obamas-out-of-control-spending-and-oil-spill-response-some-perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama&rsquo;s out of control spending and oil spill response some perspective."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Consider that from Jan. 20, 2001, to Jan. 20, 2009, the debt held by the public grew $3 trillion under Mr. Bush\u2014to $6.3 trillion from $3.3 trillion at a time when the national economy grew as well. <\/p>\n<p>By comparison, from the day Mr. Obama took office last year to the end of the current fiscal year, according to the Office of Management and Budget, the debt held by the public will grow by $3.3 trillion. In 20 months, Mr. Obama will add as much debt as Mr. Bush ran up in eight years! And it is projected that with the \u2018health care reform\u2019, additional government programs and funding Obama is asking that number will double by the time his term is up!<\/p>\n<p>Our federal debt vs. our GDP is the highest it\u2019s been since the end of WWII.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/usgs_line.php_1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" title=\"usgs_line.php\" border=\"0\" alt=\"usgs_line.php\" src=\"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/usgs_line.php_thumb.png\" width=\"244\" height=\"135\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>[source: usgovernmentspenging.com]<\/p>\n<p>And on employment:<\/p>\n<p>A chart of unemployment since 1995 <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">[Source for the unemployment figures: a spreadsheet taken from the Bureau of Labor Statistics website. Republican period: January 1995-December 2006. Democrat period: January 2007-June 2010.]<\/font><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/unemploymentchartjuly72010_016.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" title=\"unemployment-chart-july-7-2010_01\" border=\"0\" alt=\"unemployment-chart-july-7-2010_01\" src=\"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/unemploymentchartjuly72010_01_thumb.jpg\" width=\"339\" height=\"255\" \/><\/a>   <\/p>\n<p>click on image for full size<\/p>\n<p>And now the kicker:<\/p>\n<p>Whose response to disaster was more appropriate and timely?<\/p>\n<p> <object width=\"400\" height=\"227\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=12933322&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=12933322&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" width=\"400\" height=\"227\"><\/embed><\/object>  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/12933322\">Oil Spill Timeline<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/user3849600\">RightChange<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I could go on ad infinitum, but I am just tired. I hope people will get responsible and throw out all of our current politicians. It\u2019s time for our government to get back in the hands of those it\u2019s supposed to be in \u2013 ours. Not narcissistic ego maniacs drunk with power and privileged we \u2018common folk\u2019 could only dream of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consider that from Jan. 20, 2001, to Jan. 20, 2009, the debt held by the public grew $3 trillion under Mr. Bush\u2014to $6.3 trillion from $3.3 trillion at a time when the national economy grew as well. By comparison, from the day Mr. Obama took office last year to the end of the current fiscal &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/13\/obamas-out-of-control-spending-and-oil-spill-response-some-perspective\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Obama&rsquo;s out of control spending and oil spill response some perspective.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":587,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/587"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}