FROM SEPTEMBER 23 OF THIS YEAR....

"Obama Will Spend More on Welfare in the Next Year Than Bush Spent on Entire Iraq War, Study Reveals.

During the entire administration of George W. Bush, the Iraq war cost a total of $622 billion, according to the Congressional Research Service.

President Obama’s welfare spending will reach $888 billion in a single fiscal year--2010--more than the Bush administration spent on war in Iraq from the first “shock and awe” attack in 2003 until Bush left office in January.

Obama’s spending proposals call for the largest increases in welfare benefits in U.S. history, according to a report by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank. This will lead to a spending total of $10.3 trillion over the next decade on various welfare programs. These include cash payments, food, housing, Medicaid and various social services for low-income Americans and those at 200 percent of the poverty level, or $44,000 for a family of four. Among that total, $7.5 trillion will be federal money and $2.8 trillion will be federally mandated state expenditures"

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/54400


This is certainly not in defense of Bush, but your contempt for the last administration seems to be getting in the way of facts and what is really going on !

In that same article, they referred to an Obama speech made in West Virginia where he was giving the business to Bush (and McCain) and saying how they had raised the debt, saying for example “This is creating problems in our fragile economy. And that kind of debt also places an unfair burden on our children and grandchildren, who will have to repay it.”

And from that article........"In that same West Virginia speech last year, Obama said, “When Iraq is costing each household about $100 a month, you’re paying a price for this war.”

The Heritage study says, “Applying that same standard to means-tested welfare spending reveals that welfare will cost each household $560 per month in 2009 and $638 per month in 2010.”


All of this before we even discuss much of the stimulus health bill, etc. Just remember that we all know that Bush overspent, but this administration is making him look like an amateur, and consistently blaming another President is like having your head in the sand !