Good post as usual Scoutaz, and you can also add the $1 trillion Iraq and Afghanistan wars under Bush (didn't Giuliani state that Obama started the war in Afghanistan) which was financed with two tax cuts or was the plan all along to take over Iraq's oil fields, increase production, flood the market with oil that would lower prices and everyone would be happy. And because the wars and TARP were considered special appropriations, never showed up on the reported federal budget deficit. Yet Bush considered the low point of his administration being called a racist by Kayne West .