text: You know better. There was a lot of carryover spending from W. The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq didn't end on January 20, 2009. They continued and had to be funded. Same for Medicare Part D--it continues today. The Bush Great Recession meant fewer income taxes as millions lost their jobs, and more billions in unemployment and other counter-cyclical spending to combat the recession.
  
  "There's a dramatic difference between what Barack Obama was handed and what Donald Trump will be stepping into," says Mark Hamrick, senior economic analyst at Bankrate.com.
  He took office in January 2009 -- in the depths of the Great Recession -- when the U.S. was bleeding nearly 800,000 jobs a month. It was the worst economic hole America had seen since the Great Depression of the 1930s." 
  
  By the end of his second term Obama added 11.3 million jobs over for 75 straight months of economic growth.
  http://money.cnn.com/2017/01/06/news/economy/obama-over-11-million-jobs/