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My take on a fair assessment of blame is...bush spent like a trooper..created the biggest social program since SS with prescription drug program which was created to protect rich Pharma and thier pricing...which is sell it to the rest of the world for half price or less and bury americans in horrific prices.
There was a revolt starting over being allowed to buy drugs from canada at half the price and mexico for 5cts on a dollar...bush was ready to pass a law to ban buying from canada and he was lambasted...so up pops the drug giveaway program with the CLAUSE govt cannot negotiate lower prices from the drug companies.....and bush gave away the first 700 billion....he got this started and obama followed up with bad decisions...
Ok its both their faults....now what are we going to do about it...aside from insisting on giving the rich and corps huge tax cuts and giving away more billions in stimulus....
What you are missing is that the Democrat alternative was much, much more expensive as they wanted more spending on Medicare Part D than they ended up getting. Bush gets the blame but many ignore the debate at the time. The further away from the time of that debate the more inaccurate the information becomes.
What we are going to do about it is fire Obama and put some confidence back into the U.S. economy. The economic conditions were worse in the 81-82 than they are now due to the high interest rates, high inflation on top of rising unemployment. Demonization of individual wealthcare and promotion of class warfare benefits no one and makes the situation worse.