Deficit Explosion: Blame the President? Not So Fast
The GOP blames President Obama for the $4 trillion rise in the nation’s debt to $15 trillion. Yet the numbers show yearly deficits would have exploded no matter who occupied the White House during the slow recovery from 2009 to 2011.
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