The Patriot Post® · Tuesday Opinion

Best of Right Opinion

• Stephen Moore: Obama’s Real Debt and Deficit Legacy
• Cal Thomas: Warning Signs Ignored Again
• James Shott: Effective Action Needed to Stop School Shootings
• Bill Wagner: Goal-Post Movement
• Tony Perkins: At Trump’s HHS, a Cry for Health

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Opinion in Brief

Stephen Moore: “Obama and his supporters are saying that he ‘cut the deficit by two-thirds’ while president. The left-wing group Politifact, which is supposed to be a fact-checker, even has rated Obama’s claim as ‘mostly true.’ Last week, while I was talking about the fiscal outlook on CNN, the producers put a chart on the screen showing that the deficit dropped by 60 percent while Obama was president. My jaw dropped — literally — when I saw the chart. This takes data torturing to new heights. The national debt skyrocketed from $11 trillion to nearly $20 trillion on Obama’s watch. Is a diet successful if you start by weighing 200 pounds and eight years later you weigh 400 pounds? Would anyone in that position say, ‘I may be obese now, but at least I’m putting on the pounds at a slower pace’? The national debt nearly doubled in eight years, which makes Obama the runaway Olympic gold medalist for fiscal incompetence. On this score Obama’s record is by far the worst of any modern president.”