Obama Shatters Spending Record for First-Year Presidents - FOXNews.com: "President Obama has shattered the budget record for first-year presidents -- spending nearly double what his predecessor did when he came into office and far exceeding the first-year tabs for any other U.S. president in history.
In fiscal 2009 the federal government spent $3.52 trillion -- $2.8 trillion in 2000 dollars, which sets a benchmark for comparison. That fiscal year covered the last three-and-a-half months of George W. Bush's term and the first eight-and-a-half months of Obama's.
That price tag came with a $1.4 trillion deficit, nearly $1 trillion more than last year. The overall budget was about a half-trillion more than Bush's for 2008, his final full fiscal year in office.
Click here to read FOXBusiness.com's Elizabeth MacDonald describe what the interest on the debt can buy.
That's a big increase. But compared with other presidents' first years in office, Obama is running circles around them."
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