Boo Radley
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Obama is not responsible for causing the deficit he inherited from Bush.
However, Obama IS responsible for the causing the deficit has has added AFTER he took office.
Also, Obama is now responsible for ADDRESSING the deficit, regardlees of who CAUSED it.
Seems fairly simple to me.
Has to do with how you manuver short term and long term goals. If you subcribe to the notion of short term eexpense to lessen the blow now, and to work on long term goals later to reduce, he may not be responsble for anything that would be considered wrong. We need more of a long term plan from him, but deficit spending in a recession isn't new, or something that wasn't done before he took office.
Also, I would argue while important, it would be unfair to suggest the deficit is the only issue. As I have stated, we do need to reduce spending and raise taxes if we are serious about the deficit. however, we can't pretend there are not other issues involved, and what we should cut will be debated fiercely.