A Picture Worth a Thousand Words... or Trillions of Dollars

From Ezra Klein of the New York Times.

One of the biggest differences that Klein highlights?  Obama's expenditures are temporary where Bush's seem more and more long-term.  Second, if the Bush Tax Cuts were left to expire in 2012 as they should, our deficit problem would have been cut in half.

A shorter version of the NY Times article can be found at The Washington Post.