Pres. Obama's Deficits

Jim Hoft of Gateway Pundit blog has long been using a graphic showing the deficits (and a few surpluses) of the last five administrations. Since the graphic only had the projected budget deficit for Pres. Obama's first year, I decided to update it with more recent numbers. Taking the numbers from the Whitehouse Office of Management and Budget itself, I have updated the graphic with the announced 2009 and 2010 deficits, as well as the deficit the OMB is projecting for 2011.

Here are six variations graphing the current numbers, as of October 2010 February 2011 [Now with updated 2011 numbers! -- CM]. Feel free to copy them and use them on your own blogs.

I decided to call out Pres. Obama's deficits in shades of red.

Alternating between teal and blue, the deficits from Pres. Reagan to Pres. George W. Bush are called out.

I have also produced the three above without the text about Pres. Obama and Pres. Bush.

UPDATE (2/15/2011 12:26:09 PM): With a new revision of the OMB numbers for 2011 raising the estimated deficit to $1.645 trillion, I have updated the graphics to show the new OMB projection. I have also made two other changes based on feedback. The Bush years text now uses bars rather than arrows (h/t Irene), and I have given Pres. Bush eight years of budgets instead of nine and adjusted all the rest by one (h/t bridgeman).

If you have been using these images, please download and use the current versions. If you want to access the old ones, you may download them all as a single zip file.

Date Posted: 10/18/2010 6:00:00 PM
Date Modified: 2/15/2011 12:26:09 PM
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