I hate debating things like this on XPT, it is extremely difficult to construct well defined arguments and to unleash my formidable intellect and knowledge when I have a boner and want to look at and discuss whores, splooge and their consumption of it, however......

The late 90s/early 2000 Surplus(es) was/were neither illusory nor the single after effect of the Dot Cum bubble ... the recession that (briefly) followed was greatly exacerbated by 9/11, the effects of which were actually shaken off fairly quickly, so that the fiscal situation of the governement could have and should have remained positive, the budgets balanced (or not nearly as deficit heavy as they became) without the subsequent sinkholes of Iraq/Afgahanistan and the many other sinkholes of the republican nightmare, and the subsequent (now permanent) precipitous rise in gas prices that Cheney wanted took a large bite out of everyone's ass so that instead of some of the $$$ continuing on into the govt coffers, they went to Exxon et al

The DOT cum bubble is greatly exagerated as being the primary power behind the surplus(es)....c'mon guys it is not that simple. And this Credit/Mortgage/Derivative crises IS/ARE the fault of the Republican Admin...the relaxing of regs and the push for aggressive investment was the tool to counter the effects of the 9/11 attack, so that the terrorists could not claim victory by throwing the economy in the tank. And that was correct to do, in 2002-2003, but the fucking thing is, Bush & Co. forgot to TURN it back off when the storm had passed, so that, in 2004, 2005 and 2006-2007, you had the naturally greedy fuckers on wall street and all over the country continuing to take advantage of the situation, thus bringing on the colossal mess that followed. Countrywide's Chief Executive Ogre, Angelo Mozzillo openly admitted that, what the governement allowed them to do after 9/11 to give the economy a jolt was like a painkiller, meant for shorterm use to weather a crisis....using it for 8 years after however, resulted in what we saw, an addict overdosing and nearly dying (I just HAD to stick an opiate reference in here somewhere ).

Ah, It is too esoteric and the math too cumbersome to regurgitate here, but the fact is, it is stupid to blast Obama just yet, it really is, NO ONE could (nor can probably) "FIX" what is wrong with this fucking country, at least not with the current apparatus.

I cannot believe I am defending Obama, but that in itself is the greatest testament to just how fucked we are....

...and why I am now going to watch my erstwhile pornographic albatross, the 5-guy cum filled asshole overload scene with Keri Sable from 2005...yes, it has come to that, what used to make me sick now fucking gets me going to my whore rolodex and speed dial, and nowadays I am imagining it is Holly Randall instead of Keri....