From Reagan to Trump: Here's How Stocks Performed Under Each President

 

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The Real Food Stamp President(s)

"Setting the record straight. Can you guess which president owns the first chart, about the increase in people who get food stamps, and which president owns the second one, about the rising cost of the program. I'm not going to tell you the answers, but I will give you two hints. There is a father and son in the answers, and neither is named Barack Obama."

h/t Crooks & Liars

The Right-Wing's Scapegoat/Savior Politics

Mark Neumann (in what seems a continual run for any vacant elected public office) kicked off his Wisconsin Senate campaign with a right-wing talking-point, "Wisconsin is at the forefront of a new breed of fiscal conservatism, with Republicans including Gov. Scott Walker, Rep. Paul Ryan and Sen. Ron Johnson leading the way. The Badger State is poised to show the rest of the nation that we know how to put a stop to the reckless spending that threatens to send our economy off the rails."

Where were all these fiscally conservative Republican deficit-hawks when George W. Bush was doubling the U.S. deficit? Reality seems to indicate Republicans couldn't control their own spending proclivity.

This is nothing more than the latest breed of shameless Republicans. Blathering on and on about evil Washington, deficits, and spending. Yet, they've been the ones spending like drunken sailors and increasing our deficit.

[Graphs courtesy of Dave Johnson]

The Debt Ceiling

Jon Perr gives some much needed perspective and insight into the completely manufactured debt ceiling issue with which the Republicans are trying to blackmail the Democrats.

Republicans, during the George W. Bush administration, raised the debt ceiling 75 percent. Thus far, under Barack Obama, the debt ceiling has only been raised roughly 18 percent.

For Further Reading:

GOP's Bluff On The Debt Ceiling

Deficit Hypocrisy

From Crooks and Liars, Born Again Deficit Virgins.