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And you know what, this explains why conservative hate Bill Maher. He points out their hypocrisies so well.

I love the chart, but it probably characterizes tax cuts as spending. At the very least, they should be honest about that.

Cloud says

Bill Mahr, you mean the guy who get to call women c*nts ?

Why? Because he gave Obama a million bucks?

You mean Bill Mahr, the guy that gets to call woman tw*ts? Because he is own your team? That guy? Where were you Lefties then? I didn't see any liberals demanding he get off tv. Or demands Obama return the money.

Hypocrites. Of course Dan admires a guy like that because he has stated on Patrick that all Catholic woman are sluts. Makes sense.

Instead of attacking the messenger, why not address the message? You can't, so you rant about Bill Maher. "He's sooo mean!"

Cloud says

hypocrites

What have I said that justifies you calling me a hyprocrite? Nothing -- you don't have a response to the topic discussed here. You're a child.

YesYNot says

I love the chart, but it probably characterizes tax cuts as spending. At the very least, they should be honest about that.

I don't know about that. I would think that tax cuts would be included in a chart about deficit running, but not spending as this one is. But I can't verify either way.

rooemoore says
Cloud says

You mean Bill Mahr, the guy that gets to call woman tw*ts? Because he is own your team? That guy? Where were you Lefties then? I didn't see any liberals demanding he get off tv. Or demands Obama return the money.

Hypocrites. Of course Dan admires a guy like that because he has stated on Patrick that all Catholic woman are sluts. Makes sense.

Instead of attacking the messenger, why not address the message? You can't, so you rant about Bill Maher. "He's sooo mean!"

Ah, that's why I have Cloud on ignore. He's such a disingenuous ass. Yeah, I like Bill Maher because he thinks all women are cunts just like I think all Catholic women are sluts. What bullshit.

Bill Maher made a joke once and to claim that he's a misogynist because of that is complete bullshit, just like it's bullshit to have a fake outrage boner over one joke I told in passing several months ago. Oh, and both jokes were funny, so fuck off Cloud.

Still, all this anal leakage that comes from Cloud when people quote him compels me to point out to indisputable facts.

1. Women like Bill Maher. Half his audience are women and they cheer him all the time.

2. Bill Maher used the word cunt in a joke, but he doesn't support forcing women to have a probe shoved up their cunts literally like Republican scumbags like Cloud do.

Republicans supported by assholes like Cloud have passed laws requiring a non-medical procedure involving forcing a wand literally inside a women's vagina before she can get an abortion. It has no medical purpose and is being forced on women solely to shame them and humiliate them to the point where they won't get an abortion.

Now that's fucking misogynistic.

And that's why people like Cloud keep accusing their opponents of being woman haters, because they need to distract people from the real woman haters who are raging the real war on women.

Ok, I did some research and got official figures of federal spending from http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/budget/fy2013/assets/hist.pdf

Then I put together a spreadsheet based on the data there that shows the increase in spending by each administration using the same years as the graph from Bill Maher.

Hey Patrick, is there a way to upload files other than images? If so, I'd gladly include the Excel spreadsheet so everyone can verify it.

Below are the results. They are essentially the same as Maher's graph although his data shows slightly higher spending increases for all presidents. Perhaps his data is including spending that the White House archives ignore. But the bottom line is that Bill Maher is once again correct, and his detractors are wrong.

So, can I get an apology from those who accused Maher of spewing misinformation? The data has been confirmed.

Notice from the chart above that every Republican increased spending more than any Democrat. Thus proving the statement that Republicans, not Democrats, are the big spenders.

And no, my data does not count tax decreases as spending. Read the PDF yourself.

And this data comes directly from the White House's website.

You know WTF else? If you take into account inflation, about 3.5%, every Democrat has actually decreased spending whereas every Republican has increased spending, and usually by quite a lot.

And yes, the figures are in nominal dollars.

So we have to completely end the bullshit myth that Democrats are tax and spend, when it's really the Republicans that spend irresponsibly. Fuck, that means that the Democrats really are the party of fiscal responsibility and spending cuts. Think about it.

More chart porn from my spreadsheet...

Oh, and the values are in millions of dollars.