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[QUOTE="HeavensJail_nli:951380"]According to the linked site, the debt has increased by approx $950B since Obama took office. This is a little more than 100B a month (still scary) rather than 1T; the figure you initially mentioned is off by a factor of more than 7, provided we assume that a neutral administration wouldn't've added anything to the debt. Yes, since Obama's inauguration, the national *debt* -- much of which is a legacy of FDR fighting WWII and Reagan pushing the USSR to go all-in -- has *risen to* $7T since Obama was inaugurated, but he didn't spend all that money himself. Obama's major spending so far can basically be summed up as the $787B stimulus (which, technically, has been a lot more allocated than spent so far) and the $410B supplemental that just passed to run the government until the end of the year, which given the way Washington works, was pretty much going to have to be in that ballpark anyway. A 16% jump in the debt in 7 months is something to be concerned about, sure, but not quite yet the end of civilization.[/QUOTE]
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