Originally Posted by Villages Kahuna

Donna, with all due respect, maybe what you heard is actually true. It sounds like kind of a wild statement; I'm not going to bother to research it.

But just think about the allegation. One President and one Congress could actually do all those bad things fiscally, all by themselves, in only 430 days, about 14 months?

I'm certainly not arguing that all of the decisions made since January 20, 2009 were fiscally sound. But some of the current President's predecessors provided a little "wind at his back", not the least of which were the financial crisis and the costs of beginning to clean it up, an economy careening into recession, and the two wars that came along with the job. Whatever the deficit was during Obama's first year in office, $1.2 trillion of it was the result of a budget signed by George Bush.

Having said that, I still believe that things will have to change in a very big way that none of us is going to like very much.