A most deceptive graph

This is a graph from the New York Times, a huge Obama cheerleader.
On the surface, it appears that Obama's share of the deficit is minuscule.
The red portion may be fairly attributed to 8 years of the Bush administration.
The yellow portion "extension of Bush policies" appears to blame Bush, but who is extending the policies? Yes, that's right, the Obama administration.
The green portion is the stimulus bill (aka porkulus bill), but the graph suggests that's not Obama either, but it was Obama and the Dem congress that passed it.
The blue portion is blamed on the recession, which may be in part due to lower tax revenue, but who know what other inconvenient numbers they have thrown in there?
So the Obama portion of this graph is actually the sum of the yellow, green, and gray portions after only half a year in office, and that is assuming that the NY times haven't jiggled the numbers in other ways (which they have be caught doing in the past).

Obama's astonshing statements

On his recent trip to Ghana, President Obama lectured other African nations about how to attract business and how government affairs should be conducted. "No business wants to invest in a place where the government skims 20 percent off the top." Obama's astonishing statements never cease to amaze me. The U.S. corporate tax rate is 35 percent (at the federal level). It's the second highest of all the OECD countries. It's higher than France and Sweden. If you add the state rate, that's an average of 40 percent.

This again bears out my theory that for Obama, words only have weight in a certain time and place. After the time frame has passed or he has left a location, the words are no longer of importance and should not be held against him in another time and place.

Future Posts

Now that we have an official discussion page, I will no longer be posting political stuff here. However, I will continue to post other things of unique interest to me and I will continue to occasionally add to the Mini Diary section and so forth. As usual, I will update my link on the discussion page when I have made an update on this page.

Car of the Future

I gotta get me one of these.