Originally Posted by Villages Kahuna

No, for the time being I'm blaming two terms of the George Bush administration with a Republican Congress. Those were the years when we got a running start on the deficit spending and the national debt that we're facing down now.

Barack Obama hasn't done much to slow the pace of spending during his two years as President and if he doesn't, five years from now we'll have forgotten George Bush and we'll be blaming Obama. But for now, Richie, this is mostly a George Bush and GOP-made problem. Those are the unavoidable facts, regardless of your political ideology.