defensive. doubling the deficit on this watch in the terrible economy which is the biggest problem of all, even bigger than overspending is really the anemic recovery we ve got and that s all on the policies of this administration. no, i mean, they ve tried this a long time. it s very lame. you know, the deficit in 2007 was 1.2% of g.d.p., one of the lowest post war so a lot went into getting us in the fix we re in now but won t wash for them to keep looking back and try to blame it on someone else. they re trying to blame it on someone else. it comes back to you. you re office of management and budget and democrats are praising you as well. they keep saying wow, you drove up the deficit. in reality, there s a different reality to which you actually inherited, correct? sure. it was a bubble breaking back then, too, and all the revenue that people imagined was coming, everyone thought was coming. the surplus was on paper, wasn t in the bank. it never happened and wasn t going to
economic recession that took place then. but, you know, it s really not worth arguing about at this point. we re in a very bad place and the question is, as it always is, what do we do now? what this administration is doing with regard to economic growth and spending discipline is simply not going to get the job done. so it has been exercised in indiana and indiana has an interesting jobs report to report, correct? and growth. right. we have we were the nation s leader last month in jobs growth and we ve been growing about two times the national average over the last year. our budget is in balance and our credit is better than the federal government s which is a strange thing to say, triple a. and we re going to give a tax refund to our citizens at the end of this fiscal year. so we re in relatively speaking very strong shape. we sure like everyone, we need a better national economy. you hate personal accolades and you don t like praise, that s not why you do it.