The Blame Game

“He did it!” “She did it first!” “It’s not my fault.”


If you’ve heard these words way too often, it’s probably because you’re a parent or work in some capacity with children. It takes a real strong measure of maturity to accept responsibility for one’s actions.

This is not a maturity we are seeing in our seated president. After a solid year in office, during which there has been staggering economic blows and record unemployment, other than his constant campaign speeches about how he is our answer for all our woes, there has been little to no evidence of answering to any of the problems this administration has created, and is still creating, other than to blame his predecessor, or the administration before him. If you listen to any White House representative on any news show or press conference, they are all quick to pull out the finger and point it backwards.

Unfortunately for those who try to deceive the interested and participating Americans, but fortunately for us, in this age of the internet and information technology, we don’t have to take anybody’s word for it. Oh, I know all too often, the tendency for the apathetic citizen waiting for “Big Brother” to come on, is to accept without hesitation or question that anything uttered by our highest officeholder on national media can’t be anything but true.

But I checked some facts and I’d like to share them with you……and also to encourage you to research your own information……….

Let’s start with the elephant in the room…..healthcare spending….. Private health care spending did grow an average of 6.3% from 2001 through 2008, HOWEVER private health spending actually grew faster BEFORE Bush took office. In Clinton’s last three years, it grew 7.9%, 7.1%, and 6.7% respectively. In the 1980’s, it grew roughly 11.3% per year and in the 1970’s, 12.1% per year. As for UNINSURED, that number has held at about 15% of the population for the last twenty years….no unusual or recent catastrophic growth. These uninsured census responders were NOT asked if they chose to remain uninsured for reasons other than affordability.(obtained from the U.S. Census Bureau)

Then, there’s the big deficit issue. Obama claims he inherited all this debt that Bush created. Well, according to “U.S. Statistical Abstract”, (Table 457), the deficits DECLINED from 2004-2007, which were the years reflecting budgets passed by Republican congresses. The average deficit over all of Bush’s eight years was 2% of GDP, which is BELOW THE PREVIOUS FOUR DECADE AVERAGE OF 2.2% of GDP. (Just an fyi….the 2009 deficit under Obama was 9.9% of GDP)…..Look it up folks.

Defense spending under George W. Bush was lower than any year between 1941 and 1994. Bush’s largest defense spending year was near Jimmy Carter’s LOWEST defense spending year. President Bush took it from a historically low 3% of GDP in 2000 to a still historically low of 4%.

As for the Deregulation accusations, Bush did sign into law the Sarbanes-Oxley corporate regulations, due largely in response to the Enron affair, which occurred during the presidency of Bill Clinton. According to statistical numbers, Bush added to the regulatory powers, but there are no specifics given to show that he “deregulated” anything. The Bush administration did push for the Treasury Department to regulate Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, but this proposed regulation was STOPPED by democrats in congress, including Barney Frank.

While President Bush did enact the prescription coverage provided now under Medicare, the Democratic party was against it only because it did not expand entitlements ENOUGH, and are now using this as another jab against the former president, while leaving out anything that might reflect their role in it. In other words, if they’d had their way, it would have been much larger, more encompassing, and included other entitlements as well.

Mr. Obama has tripled our deficit, raised our debt ceiling, chased after government takeover of healthcare while more Americans lost jobs, apologized to our enemies for our country, given terrorists the rights of our citizens, and spent most of his teleprompter exercise in blaming everyone in the past for his problems. When, oh when, will a real patriotic leader come along to lead this nation once again to its former greatness, and God-given glory?

“I looked for a man among them who would build up the wall and stand before me in the gap on behalf of the land so I would not have to destroy it, but I found none.”
Ezekiel 22: 30



(Some information and data also found at Americanthinker.com)