‘Stutistics’: Obama’s Budget vs. Reality
- Posted on August 22, 2012 at 8:39pm by
Jason Howerton
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For those of you who just want to know the facts regarding the economy, not the typical over or under-exaggerated political rhetoric, tonight’s episode of “Stutistics” may be for you.
Tonight on GBTV, soon-to-become TheBlazeTV, Stu Burguiere, executive producer and head writer for the Glenn Beck Radio Program, broke down what he calls “the deficit blame game” and compared President Obama’s deficit to the total deficit of former President George W. Bush, who Obama routinely blames for all of his administration’s shortcomings. OK, so due to a technical error the episode didn’t actually air, but now you can see it here.
“Last time we showed you that while Obama loves to blame Bush for everything, his deficits are far worse than any previous president or, for that matter, any drug addicted heiress,” Stu said as a picture of Paris Hilton flashed on the screen.
While Bush’s deficit to GDP over his 8-year term was 2.7 percent, slightly above the historical average of 2.6 percent, Obama’s is actually much, much higher. More than double, in fact.
“Even if you use Obama’s own rosy numbers, his deficit towers above at an unthinkable 6.1 percent,” Stu explained.
Watch the latest “Stutistics” episode here:
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Eric_The_Red_State
Posted on September 1, 2012 at 2:58amYa know why Romney is being called a person who didn’t create a lot of jobs? Because his state had less than 4% Unemployment!!!!!! — You can’t create JOBS when everyone is already working!!!
Report Post »jacst102
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 4:24pmThink any amount of statistics and facts mean a thing to the army of progressive idiots that get their world view from racist America haters teaching their “ethnic studies” classes? No. They will just rationalize up something out of thin air to bridge the gap between reality and what they FEEL is right. You can’t fix stupid. There is nothing that will make a dent in the brainwashed minds being pumped out of our leftist universities. They just make up what they believe as they go along. Their world view is 100% EMOTION based. If they don’t like how something that challenges their worldview sounds, they just dismiss it as racist, or bigoted, or whatever. Facts mean NOTHING to the left. Its only what advances the narrative that matters to them. And when they are done rearranging the facts to suit their purpose, they then turn around and accuse conservatives of manipulating the numbers and not being rational. In short, THEY ARE HOPELESS.
Report Post »LINKSTER
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 3:44pmTo win reelection in 2012, BO must divert the country’s attention from his record of incompetense and amateurism. He doesn‘t want to remind people that America lost it’s triple A credit rating on his watch. A firing offense per Sen. Lindsey Graham of S.C.
Report Post »Not to remind people that he increased the national debt by nearly $5 trillion. The most rapid increase under any president pushed through a bill that included more than a trillion dollars in new healthcare spending and contains a 4.5 percent increase.
Republicans will have to remind America that BO is The Amateur.
trotula
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 11:54amI love Stutistics, but I wish they had actually shown the comparison with Obama and the drug addicted heiress…not just with previous administrations.
Report Post »LukeAppling
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 11:18amYes we should try someoe else, how about Mitt Romney, I‘m just say’in.
Report Post »richard.burian1
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 3:59pmRomney never ran a defect as a business man he had to show a profit or they would have found another CFO, as a governor he had a constitutional requirement to balance a budget, states are not allowed to run a defect, but nice try Mr. uninformed
Report Post »Quiata
Posted on August 24, 2012 at 7:05am@RICHARD.BURIAN1 Nice try, Mr. “I-can’t-spell-deficit”.
Report Post »OneTermPresident
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 9:52amOh come on now…. he “pledged” to cut the deficit in half by the end of his first term.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyrlMr0Bedo
Report Post »Amarilloan
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 12:59pmMath wasn’t his strong suit. Of course, I’m not sure what subject was….
Report Post »libsaredumb
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 3:23pmhmmm…if only smoking pot were a class
Report Post »toomuchgovt
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 9:51amSomeone Hacked the Blaze. I tried to post on fb and was redirected to “bleacher”, then I tried to close the post and was redirected to “midsext”. What is up with the toyota pop ad?
Report Post »OneTermPresident
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 10:42amSounds like you might be infected because “you’re” being redirected… it’s not the Blaze.
Report Post »dogmeat
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 11:48amI posted it on FB.
Report Post »Amarilloan
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 1:04pmOneTerm, actually I think hackers have piggybacked The Blaze. I’ve had pop-up abuse and problems with loops in my computer, too, and only from The Blaze. I have since shored up my pop-up blocker but still have to shut down and restart, again, only after visiting The Blaze.
Report Post »eyestoseeearstohear
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 8:56pm@ AMARILLOAN
You are right. I’m having the same problems too!
Sometimes, I can’t Log In OR it shows I am NOT logged in – BUT takes
me to my profile which shows I am.
And, it does this ESPECIALLY when I’ve said something about
Report Post »YOU KNOW WHO – I must be HITTING THEM ON THE HEAD, huh?
P.S.
Does everone get that little “ Hot on the Blaze” popout thingie?
It’s so annoying.
ronBrough
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 7:14amGood question. Obama keeps saying why should we go back to the ideals that got us here in the frist point. While lets see why should we run to his ideals? The ideals of the Germans in between WWI and WWII, the USSR and The EU today. The ideal that the government take the money and spead it around as it gets fats and lazy, after some time the governmnet is so big and the people are so broke that both party die under the weight of debt. Can we all stop looking at this as a Bush or Obama ~ Left or Right and understand that our way of life is about to change forever and not for the good.
Report Post »JRook
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 9:30amOf course will Stew display the honesty and integrity that one would expect from a christian?? That is pointing out that comparing Bush’s deficit average over his entire term ignores the impact of the cliff he drove our economy off of in his final 2 years. And will Stewie point out the Bush passed a $1.2 trillion deficit run rate to the PRESIDENT on the way out. You see the 2008-2009 fiscal year belongs to Bush as that budget was his responsibility.
Report Post »Liberalismsamentaldisorder
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 9:56am@JROOK
“the economic cliff he drove us over in his last 2 years” You mean the last 2 years when dems took over congress…those 2 years?
Report Post »rickinpa
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 10:17am@Rook You mean the 2008-2009 Budget the last one passed by the dem controlled congress??? Yes BUsh signed it hew shares the blame but morons like you who refuse to acknowledge the role the dems played in this our how idiots like Obama got elected.
A LEADER FINDS A WAY A LOSER FINDS AN EXCUSE – OBAMA IS FULL OF EXCUSES
Report Post »dogmeat
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 12:00pmLIBERALISMSAMENTALDISORDER I think you may have forgotten YOUR beloved DEMS were in full control of BOTH the HOUSE and The SENATE during the last two(2) years of BUSH! Bush was a lame duck at that time and was unable to do anything without the DEMS approval! But as we all know FACTS will never get in the way of a DEM and their LIES!
Report Post »dogmeat
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 12:04pmSorry LIBERALISMSAMENTALDISORDER that was meant for JROOK. Please forgive me.
Report Post »libsaredumb
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 3:31pmI agree, both parties have been sailing us down the river for far too long. We should have a higher standard than Bush or Obama, even Reagan for that matter. How about George Washington. If all you care about is winning elections, then you’ve already lost.
Report Post »suz
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 3:11ami think it has always been a good idea to not follow the man but follow money.
thanks stu.
Report Post »betsyyoung
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 1:22pmDitto, love Stu!
Report Post »JUSTANOTHEROPINION
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 1:50amGBTV subscribers are so proud of our Stu!!!!! He’s smarter than the average producer. Thanks Stu.
Report Post »christos
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 1:00amI have heard teachers praise bo that he is the only president in history who has reduced the Federal budget & that he has spent the least of any President,I am stunned when I hear their stats,I’m always thinking where do they hear this garbage & how do I convince them they are hearing lies,these are Teachers I do not know where they get there info. but there is no changing their minds even when presented with the real facts,,,did I say these are actual Teachers our country is Dumb,,,they should listen to other sources but they refuse as if their minds are seared with a hot iron,,,,Stu is good at statistics always can count on his back up on the G.B. show with all the Stats,,,At Restoring Love Pat & Stu where hilarious but yet serious they did a good job.
Report Post »E.Z. Las Vegas
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 5:24amChristos:
For current debt information from the “best available public sources” please see usdebtclock.org. The site has a “debt clock time machine” which will show you the debt up to the second, the debt on this date 4 years ago, and the debt 4 years from now, all in real time.
Obama has spent roughly 5.8 TRILLION. But the scariest stat is the entitlement lie. As of today, if no changes are made to the payment structure, and those Soylent Green factories don’t get built, then the money we owe for medicare, prescription drugs, and social security ONLY is over 120 TRILLION, or roughly twice the GTP.
GTP is Gross Terrestrial Output–the annual value of every good and service produced by every human being on the planet. THAT IS FOR JUST 3 PROGRAMS!!!!! That is why we are in heap big trouble, regardless of how many burritos Chipotle Grille sells, and that is why anyone who read Rich Dad, Poor Dad has known for twenty years that retirement benefits are not sustainable, and why we are frustrated that this problem has been ignored for years.
Report Post »betsyyoung
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 1:28pmMost teachers, educators and professors are Progressives! Do their teachings surprise anyone?
Report Post »Caulfieldgirl
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 4:54pmAre these the teachers and their unions you talk about?
Report Post »http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-cta-20120819,0,5800370,full.story
FloridaFarmGirl
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 10:54pmThis is truly a shame. Biggest mistake those people have made in their lives was to vote for Obama in 2008. What year will it stop being Bush’s fault? 2016 ? 2020? Can’t wait for R/R to be elected and get this country back on track. Hopefully we won‘t have to hear anymore about who’s fault everything is either. Just do your job and get America strong again!!
Report Post »Ohello
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 11:49pmEven if R/R get elected,the MSM will simply start/continue demonizing everything they do. Soros money is already working this scenario. Too much evil in place in America for a revival of our foundational principles.
Report Post »desertspeaks
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 12:06amIt’s easy for obama to keep the deficit so high. It’s not his money! he’s never had to be a responsible adult and be held accountable for his INSANE actions!
Report Post »TomSawyer
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 10:51pmMost of the congresses since the early 1930s have been Democratic majorities. Only congress controls spending. The president can only veto somethings. Yet after all this spending they decided to do, including during Bushes last two years, they claim no responsibility. Vetoing a budget doesn’t stop spending. We have not even had a budget in over 3 years.
Report Post »fbanta
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 11:37pm@TomSawyer: Since 1913 Congress has been averaging spending 40% more than revenue. That was the year the 16th Amendment destroyed a key protection against tyranny; and the year the Federal Reserve was created solely to increase the indebtedness of Americans beyond the Constitutional protections set by the Founders.
There is no Constitutional justification for any political party and to restore America we must restore Constitutional governance.
Report Post »herculesmom
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 10:47pmOmg = obama must go
Report Post »Mr. Emmitt
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 11:53pmOMG=best phrase yet!
Report Post »buttpatriot
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 10:36amgbgb. god bless glenn beck.
Report Post »betsyyoung
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 1:35pmLove the new version of OMG and definitely love GBGB!!
Report Post »NoUseForLogic
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 9:29pmHahaha!
You guys would never admit that the deficit and debt are still almost 70% due to Bush’s policies. They didn’t just stop the day he left office you know. Oops. No, you don’t know. You have phony little videos like this to keep you ignorant and misinformed.
Report Post »iyam
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 9:51pmwow, just wow. The economy was growing, unemployment was in 5% and we were running 300 billion deficits. then obama was waltzed into senate and the democrats took over congress and the next thing you know we are falling apart at the economic seams and all you democrats want to throw all the blame for your economic policies on everyone else.
Report Post »CanteenBoy
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 9:52pmI figure Bush inherited some of Clinton’s time bombs, and did pretty well DESPITE that little blip to the economy, September 11, 2001.
Report Post »Psychosis
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 9:52pmwow your dumb
no other explanation needed
Report Post »DSTSS2010
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 9:59pmDemocrats controlled the Senate and the House from 2006 to 2010. Who’s to blame? Get real!
Report Post »1froglegs
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 10:32pmWhich Bush policy? Revenues went from $1.79Trillion up to $2.56Trillion after the tax cuts. Even if tax cuts theoretically could cause a recession (history shows they always result in robust growth), spending was not decreased so the tax cuts are irrelevant to the discussion other than that the higher revenues helped to soften the blow of the increase in spending.
Report Post »DarkJello
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 10:32pmYour name is precise, from what I can tell.
Report Post »TomSawyer
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 10:45pmThe wars do not have infinite cost. It is ignorant of you to say that Bush is causing deficits as far as the eye can see. It is really the liberal entitlements that cause deficits. IF liberals were represented in government in the same proportions they are in the population (20%), the deficits would be smaller.
Report Post »Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 12:35amActually, most of the deficit is due to FDR and LBJ’s policies if you want to be accurate.
Report Post »NoUseForLogic
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 12:41am“The economy was growing, unemployment was in 5% and we were running 300 billion deficits”
The economy never grew under Bush. Obama has created more jobs in one term than Bush did in two. The Bush administration modified laws and deregulated and left office just in time for the global recession. When Bush left office he was purging 800,000 jobs per month.
Obama has doubled the value of the stock market and corporate profits have never been higher in history.
Report Post »DIR
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 12:55amSorry NOUSEFORLOGIC the facts say otherwise. Believe what you will and say what you want, it won’t change the facts, or informed people’s knowledge of the facts. From your standpoint, I guess, it was worth the lame try though.
Report Post »E.Z. Las Vegas
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 5:31amWhich of the horrible, onorous, awful Bush policies did Obama and Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi reverse? How many of them were double-downed?
It shouldn’t take you real long to come up with the first list. The second list might take a tad bit longer, especially since there has been no budget passed since Obama took office, and since a lot of the shenanigans have been by executive fiat, as spelled out so clearly in the Executive Fiat Article of the Constitution.
Report Post »TyrannyNoMore
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 8:51amWOW ! Did you magically pull that 70% figure out of your rectum ? Where not to many people will argue Bush was no genius, our country was doing fine until the ******* s took over congress in 2006. But, I would not expect facts to get in the way of a mental giant, such as yourself !
Report Post »betsyyoung
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 1:32pm@NUFL…..you have aptly named yourself!
Report Post »BCanook
Posted on August 24, 2012 at 11:24amYou guys would never admit that the deficit and debt are still almost 70% due to Bush’s policies.
Your user ID says it all. Please post something that makes sense next time. Maybe try using some facts and not something you heard on MTV or Comedy Central.
Please PYHOOYA!
Report Post »D-Fence
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 9:19pmKind of has that Bill Nye the Science Guy feel. LOL I like it!
Report Post »Leadthemtothelight
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 9:15pmIn Obama’s eyes all the money in the states belongs to the government. Private businesses all had help from the government, and there for should all bow down and worship at the government altar.
Report Post »Obama and his regime are doing their best to destroy this country. He knows he is close to winning and watching the destruction of our economy. The citizens are all gonna be collateral damage…a means to an end..
SCREW-WINDOWS
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 9:36pmWho owns the printing press that prints the money ?
Report Post »Psychosis
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 9:53pm@ screw
the American public
Report Post »SCREW-WINDOWS
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 11:25pmWish that were true I’d print off a few reams of hundreds.
Report Post »E.Z. Las Vegas
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 5:43amThe printing press is irrelevant. Think about it. You get your paycheck electronically deposited, and money is automatically debited for your mortgage and your car payment. Then you go to Chipotle Grille and you use your Visa card to buy a burrito. You can even swipe a key card to pay for your toll on the highway.,..
The Fed has been cooking the books for years on the M! and M3 money supplies, and without a simple audit, no one knows anymore just how much money is in circulation on any given day. And that is not taking into account t-bills, and all those 50 dollar bills with Kim Jong Il’s picture prominenlty on the front that are circulating overseas.
Everyone might want to add as many tangible assets as they can to their portfolios.
Report Post »SamIamTwo
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 9:00pmWhat budget, we don’t need no stinking budget!
Report Post »Sirfoldallot
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 9:35pmY is Obama not looked into Economic recklesness. Demostic oath was broken here.
Report Post »LakeHartwellSailor
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 9:00pmDarmok…..all you need to do is take Econ 101 and 102. It is not hard to conclude that Obamas policies do not work. Sure, Obama said that the private sector is doing “just fine”; and Biden says that the middle class is doing “just fine”. But, unemployment has been above 8percent for 42 straight months, and the deficit has sky rocketed to record levels. Sure, Obama was dealt a bad hand, but he had his first 2 years of a democratically controlled house and senate. What did he do? He passed Obamacare which makes things worse. Did he cut the deficit in half in his first term like he promised? No, he grew it to unprecedented levels. Yea,h, I can see you need M&ms,gummy bears, and maybe a comic book version of Econ For Dummy’s.
Report Post »DarkJello
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 10:37pmYou made just 1 mistake, libs don’t often respond to the truth.
Focus more on feelings so that the message will penetrate. Try crying…
R&R FTW in 2012!!
Report Post »TyrannyNoMore
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 8:43amI can’t let this go by without responding. The actual unemployment number is double what you stated. If you take into account people who have stopped looking for work and underemployed, the REAL unemployment rate is more like 15-16 %
Report Post »It bothers me to no end, that the MSM has succeeded in getting the general public to accept the lower number as factual, when in reality, it is anything but the truth !
progressiveslayer
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 8:55pmThe Marxist maggot in chief is making us pay literally trillions for all the evil America has done since our founding.That’s the communist ideology that was pounded into him from his father and Frank Marshall Davis.How anyone could think BS could be anything but a Marxist is beyond me,just look at the destruction of our economy and constitution this POS fraud has wrought.
Report Post »rockhead
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 9:14pmHis father AND Frank Marshall Davis?
I thought his father WAS Frank Marshall Davis.
Report Post »CanteenBoy
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 9:55pmRockhead… DING!!
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 8:15amYou have DNA proof that Davis is the father of the Maggot in chief?
Report Post »TyrannyNoMore
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 8:54am@ Rockhead & Canteen You are both wrong….Barry is Satan’s spawn ! Frank Marshall Davis was just the spawn delivery mechanism.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 8:47pmSenators… opposing Impeachment… are at Fault & to Blame!
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 8:42pmCan he explain it with M&M’s and gummy worms. I learn better that way, but Stu needs to be warned, I may need to see it demonstrated a couiple of times. And Stu, don’t talk with your mouth full, or Pat may need to help.
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