>Also I don't think anyone disagrees that things were in a bit of a mess when Obama took office. Arguably he inherited the problem. Also arguably it might have been worse if the Republicans had won.
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>So Obama is trying to put out the fire by pouring gasoline on it. Sounds like plan to me.

Isn't he continuing what Bush started. If not what was the Republican plan that wasn't implemented?

>Any link to the Obama admistration predicting a 6.5 trillion deficit?
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>http://thenationaldebtcrisis.com/the-national-debt-by-president/

I've no idea what the provenence of that site is - but it contains no more information than you already gave...
The table here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_public_debt from the Congressional Budget Office paints rather a different picture. Is it wrong ?