Quote Originally Posted by David88vert View Post
Ok, then I agree on that point - it's deficit numbers, and the President does not set the budget. I was not trying to convey that Obama is stupid. Just presenting the same data that the WH and CBO utilizes in their own assessments.
Even looking at it as a means to smear congress or the administration falls short of telling the whole story. You're trying to combine fiscal policy and monetary policy into one big group and that's not how it works. There are specific reasons deficits are higher now, why the debts are higher now. Trying to say its all executives fault, or all congress' fault, or all one persons fault is ignorant.