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   From: lunch@nofreelunch.us   
      
   On Fri, 17 May 2013 10:30:50 -0500, RD Sandman   
    wrote in alt.atheism:   
      
   >Free Lunch  wrote in   
   >news:vgecp89b4ct8u06mvcmhedm0ercri3b5gg@4ax.com:   
   >   
   >> 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.   
   >   
   >As noted, it began a couple of decades ago with the start of weakening   
   >Glass Steagal in 1980.   
   >   
   >> The Democrats could have done nothing to stop it from happening.   
   >   
   >They voted for a lot of the deregulation.   
      
   Before 2007, absolutely.   
      
   >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.   
   >   
   >Obama has had 5 years now.....where are we with that?   
      
   We have a government that is going nowhere because the Republicans   
   refuse to govern.   
      
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