Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Sarah Palin gets her facts wrong - AGAIN



Former half-term governor of Alaska Sarah Palin, in the only interview she’s granted (to her employer FoxNews) during her “One Nation” bus tour, claimed that the U.S. federal debt had grown more under Obama than “all those other presidents combined.”

This is flatly false. When Obama took office the debt stood at $10.6 trillion. After inheriting two wars and the worst economy since the Great Depression, the debt has grown by $3.7 trillion since Obama has been in office. Palin is off by about $7 trillion.
(via thinkprogress.org)

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