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- iHaveNet.com: Politics
by Kenneth T. Walsh
White House advisers say George W. Bush's policies created 'the hole we're in.'
The
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Obama takes frequent jabs at his predecessor for leaving
him an economy that was teetering on the brink of collapse, and
Obama said, "If the price of certainty is essentially for us to adopt the exact same proposals that were in place for eight years leading up to the biggest economic crisis since the Great Depression ... the result is going to be the same. I don't know why we would expect a different outcome pursuing the exact same policy that got us into this fix in the first place."
Last week,
Obama also issued a blame-Bush statement with his budget request: "On
the day my administration took office," he said, "we faced an additional
Republican insiders say voters are tiring of Obama's "blame game" and argue that the current administration has made matters worse with massive spending programs that have exploded the deficit.
On the positive side, Obama will continue to focus on job creation and efforts to help small businesses with tax breaks and incentives to hire new employees.
Obama and his advisers were pleased that the latest government report shows that the unemployment rate is down from 10 percent to 9.7 percent. But Obama and his aides were startled by the government's finding that during the first quarter of last year the nation lost far more jobs than was earlier estimated -- an additional 824,000. They blame this, again, on Bush.
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