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   From: dead@gone.com   
      
   On Fri, 17 May 2013 09:10:52 -0500, Free Lunch wrote:   
      
   > 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.   
      
   I always love when Republicans try to blame the melt-down on Clinton.  It   
   was a massive fuckup by Clinton, no bones about it.  But the whine is   
   this: "Clinton gave us what we wanted, and it fucked us up! Waaaugh!"   
      
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