[Hoot Gibson]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en...Y_2011.png Under President Obama

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_United...l_Spending
Under President Bush

Looking at federal spending in the budgets for fiscal years 2006 through 2012, can you say that in terms of irresponsible spending, there is no difference between the Bush administration's record and the current administration's record? The U.S. Senate has failed to pass a budget, as required by law, for more than 1,000 days to avoid making it a bigger campaign issue. Can you recall any Republican controlled Senate refusing to obey the law and pass its own budget?

[COLOR="Blue"]2006 - $2.66 trillion
2007 - $2.73 trillion
2008 - $2.9 trillion[/COLOR]
[COLOR="Orange"]2009 - $3.52 trillion
2010 - $3.72 trillion
2011 - $3.36 trillion
2012 - $3.80 trillion[/COLOR]

I would like to see the size of the federal government slashed by at least 50 percent, but given the choice between an extremely fiscally irresponsible president and one who was simply fiscally irresponsible, I would take the latter every time. Until more fiscally conservative members are elected to Congress, those are the only two choices that we will have.