>>>>Of course!
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>>>>That has been Mike's standard defense of the Messiah all along.
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>>>And when his liberal agenda gets shoved down our throats, he wants to leave the country before we have to deal with the price tag. Classic. Instead of blaming the opposition, maybe he should open his eyes to the fact that the man he put on a pedestal is nothing but a boob.
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>>Price tag? Are you serious? Look at the deficits under Reagan and Dubya before you cast stones. They gave to the rich and stuck it up the rest of us.
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>ooooohhhhh pot calling the kettle and all that. Look here before you cast stones:
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>http://blog.heritage.org/2010/02/05/past-deficits-vs-obamas-deficits-in-pictures/
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>Budget deficits were declining in 2005, 2006, and 2007 before Democrats took over control of Congress. Federal revenues went down instead of up in 2002 and 2003.
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>Who holds the purse strings? Is it the president or is it congress? The federal budget was balanced for part of the time that President Bill Clinton was in office. What is not mentioned (ever that I recall) is that those balanced budgets occurred only when Republicans controlled both houses of Congress.

The current deficits are in direct response to the worst financial crisis of our lifetime. The first stimulus bill was passed with Bush as president and with bipartisan support. Most economists think the government should be doing more, not less, to goose the economy. Snapping the purse strings shut is viewed as a direct cause of the duration of the Great Depression and Japan's decade long slump in the 1990s.