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To: Alighieri who wrote (608121)	4/18/2011 11:04:14 AM
From: i-node	3 Recommendations Respond to of 1583658

>>> You have to be pretty dishonest to ignore the trajectory bush put the country on... This is just so disingenuous of you. Bush was nearly three years ago. What's happening today is a result of Obama's spending fit the first two years of his presidency. It is time the blame is placed squarely where it belongs. =============================== The United States is suffering from a crisis in its leadership. S&P Affirms US AAA Rating, Cuts Outlook to Negative Standard & Poor's on Monday downgraded the outlook for the United States to negative, saying it believes there's a risk U.S. policymakers may not reach agreement on how to address the country's long-term fiscal pressures. "Because the U.S. has, relative to its 'AAA' peers, what we consider to be very large budget deficits and rising government indebtedness and the path to addressing these is not clear to us, we have revised our outlook on the long-term rating to negative from stable," the agency said in a statement.