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Originally Posted by Robbie
4. I've heard Bill Maher say that same thing about the wars "not being on the books"
What does that mean? Do you have knowledge of the actual federal budget that shows that? Or are we all just repeating something that a liberal media guy said?
I'm just asking about that because I"m curious.
But if that is true...then wouldn't that mean the wars "went on the books" in one of the recent years?
What about all these other years that Obama has been president?
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Essentially what he did was go to Congress and ask for more money to fund the wars each time the money he had previously asked for ran out. This money was given as supplemental spending bills so it added to the overall national debt, but it never appeared on Bush's official budget.
It is similar to what might happen in the case of a major natural catastrophe. The president asks for a supplemental spending bill to be passes so we can pay to help the people affected and fixed the damage caused by the disaster. Apparently the president has the ability to choose not to add this money to his current budget or future budgets so while the full national debt increases, it still makes his budget look a lot less off than it really might be.