>>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.
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>Isn't he continuing what Bush started. If not what was the Republican plan that wasn't implemented?
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>>Any link to the Obama admistration predicting a 6.5 trillion deficit?
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>>http://thenationaldebtcrisis.com/the-national-debt-by-president/
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>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 ?


How is Wikipedia any more correct? It can be changed by anyone, right?