Jarhead
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- Jan 11, 2010
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Debt really isn't much of an issue until a Democrat is POTUS.
Then all of a sudden it is..
Funny that.
Actually, the debt has not been on the front pages until Obama campaigned against it back in 2008.
Now that the debt is national news daily, it is in the forefront of everyones minds.
That being said...I do not consider Obama a failure for not decreasing the debt. Sure, it may have been a campaign promise....but breaking those is par for the course for all elected officials.
However, I am disapointed that the man who put the debt in the forefront of Americans minds has opted to dramatically increase the debt he was so against.
That dramatic debt increase didn't happen in a vacuum.
In each year, 2009 and 2010, we took in about $600 billion less in revenue than we did in 2008.
Don't forget to take a look at the GOP who weren't willing to budge on tax increases and military spending cuts as part of a comprehensive plan to reduce the deficit.
It sucks that the Dems and the Reps couldn't come together and craft a real plan to address the deficit but instead silly partisanship and ideology kept anything meaningful from getting done.
and I dont see that changing in our lifetime.