Thank you for your work, Weisshaupt.
May I ask for a quick'n'dirty summary of what we're looking at here? Did Obama outspend Bush or didn't he, according to reality-numbers?
As a total, and based on Fiscal Year Data ( Bush is responsible for FY2002 - 2008 (FY2002 begins oct 1 2001) Bush did rack up more debt than Obama - but Bush had 8 Years, and his total includes TARP - most of which was spent by Obama.. and Obama is just under Halfway there ( total below is to 4/19/2009) We all knew Bush's spending was bad, and it got worse with a Dem congress-- Congress results below are for 93 to the present ( because thats all the data they have posted that I could easily download)
Public intra-govt total
Bush Terms 4,212,551,382,642.03 1,889,814,208,669.66 6,102,365,591,311.64
Obama Term 2,128,160,135,030.22 282,479,416,549.71 2,410,639,551,579.90
GOP congress 1,125,215,396,045.60 1,099,206,913,473.26 2,224,422,309,518.86
Dem Congress 4,630,716,190,840.51 682,098,991,988.69 5,312,815,182,829.12
Split Congress 213,870,071,780.00 206,902,481,617.10 420,772,553,397.10