Ok girls...
Here are three "reality-based" charts. These charts show, in fact, what has actually happened. Click on each link and feel the FOX kool-aid drain from your bodies
Spending: https://www.flickr.com/photos/davecjohnson/14676483740
Government spending increased dramatically under Bush. It has not increased much under President Obama. This is just a fact.
Next are the Deficits: https://www.flickr.com/photos/davecjohnson/14676632427
Note that this chart starts with Clinton's last budget year for comparison.
The numbers in these two charts come from Budget of the United States Government: Historical Tables Fiscal Year 2015. They are just the amounts that the government spent and borrowed, period. Anyone can go look them up. People who claim that Obama "tripled the deficit" or increased it or anything of the sort are either misled (ignorant) or are trying to mislead. President Obama inherited a budget deficit of $1.4 trillion from President Bush's last budget year and annual budget deficits have gone down dramatically since.
Finally are the jobs numbers: https://www.flickr.com/photos/davecjohnson/14860706214
In this chart, the RED lines on the left side ? the ones that keep doing DOWN ? show what happened to jobs under the policies of Bush and your Republicans. We were bleeding jobs every month, and it was getting worse and worse. The BLUE lines ? the ones that go UP ? show what happened to jobs when the stimulus was in effect. We stopped losing jobs and started GAINING jobs, and it was getting better.
The leveling off on the right side of the chart shows what happened as the stimulus started to wind down: job creation leveled off at too low a level. Party of no.
It looks a lot like the stimulus reversed what was going on before the stimulus. We have gone from losing around 850,000 jobs a month to gaining over 200,000 jobs a month.
Hugh--Numbers.
Les---Reality
Try it sometime.