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To: RetiredNow who wrote (560601)	4/13/2010 8:48:46 PM
From: TimF	2 Recommendations Respond to of 1578900

I said it isn't accurate to blame debt and deficits 100% on the president. I didn't say it should be 0%. If the president is fighting hard for lower spending and otherwise working to reduce deficits and just getting run over by congress maybe you could claim zero percent (but you can blame him slightly for failing, even if he's trying, and also he probably has some spending that he supports that could be cut, so I still might not say its zero should such a situation arise). But Obama has worked to try an increase the number. So he does get some real blame. Still not 100%, he didn't pass Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid, the wars started before he came in to office and he's only be in office a year, etc. But a sizable chunk of the blame belongs to him, just as a sizable chunk for Bush's deficits (and a bit of the blame of Obama's) belongs to Bush.