President Obama has doubled the deficit

It is nice to know we can have a civil debate without having any type of attack on the opponent as a person. it is difficult to find that now-a-days. I will be responding to my opponent's rebuttals in the order he responded. I would also like to remind the voting audience about the president saying he would cut the deficit in half, because now that has become the premise of my argument. I am going to be hammering this point as now because in the president's budget it would raise the deficit. [1] 1. According to the CBO (Congressional Budget Office) President Obama's budget would add more to the national debt and deficit; increasing the national debt to nearly $18.8 trillion by 2017. I would like to point out that the CBO acknowledged that the deficit will in fact effect the debt, but as my opponent said we must focus. As the report shows on his budget in 2012 that the deficit "would equal $1.3 trillion" or "$82 billion more than the 2012 deficit projected in CBO's baseline. " [1] My opponent continues to say that the deficit has dropped 8%, but with the deficit at $1.1 trillion [2] and looking at what the CBO said it would be by the end of 2012 it would have in fact raised the deficit by 8.4%. 2. President Obama's policies have doubled the deficit because in 2008 the national deficit was $438 billion. My opponent claims that I claimed that Obama raised the deficit from $438 billion. Well actually he did. As you know the deficit on this day in 2008 was $399 billion. [3] According to the debt clock the deficit is $1.1 trillion. Alright I would like to challenge my opponent on the policies that were signed into law by President Bush that are used to defend Obama. Here are the following items that Obama added to our credit card: 1. Deposit insurance: Increase the deficit by 2 billion dollars. 2. Supplemental spending: Increased the deficit by 31 billion dollars 3. Cash for Clunkers: Increased the deficit by 2 billion dollars 4. GM and Chrysler bailouts: Increased the deficit by 20 billion dollars. 5. Bailout spending UNDER OBAMA: Increased the deficit by $475 dollars. You total this up it would equal an increase of $530 billion in deficit spending under Obama. [4] Therefore this debunks my opponent's claims that all of the deficit as of FY 2009-2010 is at the fault of Bush's policies. 3. The President said that he would cut the deficit in half during his first term. He did not do this, therefore he doubled the deficit. I agree with my opponent that statement is nonsense. I never said that statement. I changed my argument to state that the deficit was $601 billion when Obama took office and now it has increased to $1.1 trillion (46% increase). In the president's speech he said he would "cut the deficit in half. " My argument has stated that the deficit increased 8.4% and that he has not cut the deficit in half. [5] I encourage the voters to do the math and see for themselves. 4. I will be the first to admit the deficit has not been run up (to $2.3 trillion). Alright. Unlike most politicians and other debaters I will not take back what I have stated. I will say this though: The president has run up the deficit by 8.4% as he outlined in his budget [1] and I would like you all to keep that into account, but yes the deficit is NOT $2.3 trillion. 5. To say that Obama has spent less than every president since Eisenhower is false. I will stick by my argument as it is stated. President Obama has not spent less than any president since Eisenhower. [4] My opponent accepted this and helped my argument. Please consider this. Also when you check my citations look at the graphs shown as they help my argument. 6. President Obama has stabilized the national deficit by adding more people to welfare and putting 2 wars (Libya and Afghanistan) on the credit card. Alright. .. my mom is in the military. She is a logistics specialist. Basically she sends supplies and troops to the war effort. [6] She just sent 25,000 troops to Iraq, so this debunks my opponents claim. Also she sent over 100,000 troops to Afghanistan as well as more troops to Libya. So the wars in the Middle East were just cut (a little) not entirely gone. My argument: My colleague agreed that the president has spent more than any president previous to him (as evidence by [4]) and that president Obama did not keep to his word to cut the deficit in half by the end of his first term, but instead added to it (as evidenced by [2][3][1][5]). [1] . http://www.cbo.gov... [2] . http://www.usdebtclock.org... [3] . http://www.usdebtclock.org... [4] . http://www.factcheck.org... [5] www. youtube. com/watch? v=SaQUU2ZL6D8 [6] . http://en.wikipedia.org...