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   From: lunch@nofreelunch.us   
      
   On Thu, 16 May 2013 21:43:55 -0500, RD Sandman   
    wrote in alt.atheism:   
      
   >deep wrote in news:h85bp8p08pctdpcmrnhlao2m669ocsvbi0@4ax.com:   
   >   
   >> On Thu, 16 May 2013 22:22:03 -0400, "Scout"   
   >>  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> But not to the FY2008 FY which ended 9/30/08.  He took office under   
   >>>> the 2009FY budget.   
   >>>   
   >>>Oops, and I kept saying FY2008.... my mistake. Should have been 2009.   
   >>>   
   >>>Still doesn't alter that Obama is responsible for a major portion of   
   >>>that year's deficit.   
   >>>   
   >> No, he's not.  A minor portion, but he inherited the worst recession   
   >> in decades.   
   >   
   >As a result of deregulation from both sides of the aisle over two   
   >decades, failure of the dot.com industries, lack of oversight from the   
   >Democrats in 2007 and 2008, being ignored by his own party despite three   
   >attempts to get their attention and his taxcuts.   
      
   The economic catastrophe was already baked in by the beginning of 2007.   
   The Democrats could have done nothing to stop it from happening. Of   
   course too many Democrats are as beholden to Wall Street as the GOP is,   
   so there's not much we can expect in real reform any time soon.   
      
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