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Keith Olbermann stated on April 08, 2009 in :

"President Obama is actually increasing Bush-era defense spending by $21 billion in the new fiscal year."

By Robert Farley• April 13, 2009

Barack Obama stated on March 27, 2009 in :

"2008 was the deadliest year of the war (in Afghanistan) for American forces."

By Alexander Lane• March 31, 2009

Judd Gregg stated on March 25, 2009 in :

Obama's budget plan would "take national debt up to about 80 percent of gross national product. ... Historically, it's been about 40 percent."

By Robert Farley• March 26, 2009

Barack Obama stated on March 24, 2009 in :

"As a percentage of gross domestic product, we are reducing nondefense discretionary spending to its lowest level since the '60s, lower than it was under Reagan, lower than it was under Clinton, lower than it was under Bush, or both Bushes."

By Bill Adair• March 25, 2009

Christina Romer stated on March 15, 2009 in :

"Last week the Blue Chip Economic Indicators came out that surveys lots of private forecasters. Almost all of them are predicting a turnaround in the third quarter and positive growth in the fourth quarter."

By Alexander Lane• March 17, 2009

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