Fiscal Year 2008 Deficit – $450 billion

Don’t blame Bush (Republican) or Obama (Democrat) for the large government budget deficit of 2009.  Rather, blame them both.  Bush was in office when the 2009 fiscal year was planned and for the first four months of the 2009 fiscal year.  Obama followed through with the planned budget adding his own spending bills and stimulus in the remaining eight months of the 2009 fiscal year.

The problem is government spending more money than they collect resulting in a budget deficit. There are two ways to immediately solve a deficit, spending restraint and/or higher taxes. Two other ways for government to resolve a deficit, which harm everybody in the long run, are to issue more debt or print more money.

The best approach to solving the deficit would be to eliminate the budget deficit in the first place.  Government spending must be reined in and political role models of this mentality are unfortunately difficult to currently find.

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