“Our Fiscal Problems Did Not Begin in 2010″

Posted: April 19th, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: politics

Ezra Klein makes a great point about the current debate in Washington on the debt and deficits:

But there’s a game Republicans are playing in which they try to deny any responsibility for the ongoing deficits in order to a) hurt the Democrats politically and b) leverage the debt ceiling vote to gain various policy concessions. The reality, however, is they had a big hand in the drivers of our debt…

Check out the whole thing here. The chart is very telling.

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