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February 9, 2010
Graph of the Day for February 9, 2010
"It was hard for me to believe that you were entirely serious about that socialist question. I did think it might be useful to point out that it wasn't under me that we started buying a bunch of shares of banks. It wasn't on my watch. And it wasn't on my watch that we passed a massive new entitlement - the prescription drug plan without a source of funding. And so I think it's important just to note when you start hearing folks throw these words around that we've actually been operating in a way that has been entirely consistent with free-market principles and that some of the same folks who are throwing the word socialist around can't say the same." President Obama.
Source: Gallup.
Hoven's Index for February 9, 2010
The top four most liberal US Senators in 2007 per the National Journal, and their voting scores (economic, social, foreign and overall):
Obama, Barack, D-Ill.: 94, 94, 92, 95.5
Whitehouse, Sheldon, D-R.I.: 94, 88, 94, 94.3
Biden, Joseph, D-Del.: 94, 86, 98, 94.2
Sanders, Bernie, I-Vt.: 90, 88, 98, 93.7
Federal government spending as a percent of GDP, actual and projected:
2001-2008 average: 19.6%
2007: 19.6%
2008: 20.7%
2009: 24.7%
2010: 24.1%
2011: 24.3%
Source: CBO.
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