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Originally Posted by Shaakglith12194
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Dude, Bush might have started that middle east crap, but Obama took it to a whole other level. You should look up the JSOC and how they are basically killing people at will in countries where there isn't even any war. The US's Triple A credit rating survived MANY wars, including WWI, WWII, the Vietnam War, and plenty of others, like 100 years of war, and then we lost it in 2 years of Obama. Dude is increasing the national debt at historic rates. And if you know anything about the free trade agreements of the past, you should be very worried about the one that's going to be fast-tracked very soon. Here's an informative comic about it:
http://economixcomix.com/home/tpp/
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First lets address the Triple A credit rating. Credit ratings are defined by the confidence that creditors have in a borrows ability to pay back a loan. When the Republicans refused to raise the debt ceiling in 2010 they threatened the governments ability to pay back loans, this caused the credit rating to dip as confidence that we would pay back our loans slipped. The funny thing is, Congress sets the budget and the President is required to carry the budget out. The President actually has no ability to set their own budget, they can only propose one and try to convince Congress to pass it. So, Congress tells the President what to spend, where to spend, and when to spend AND they also control the means by which the President CAN spend when the IRS doesn't bring in enough tax revenue.
Now to address you comment about the debt increasing at the fastest rate under Obama. The RATE the debt is increasing has actually decreased under Obama (IE: It's still growing, just at a slower rate than during the Bush years). The problem is people see big numbers and can't comprehend what is going on.
100 increased by 25% is 125
1000 increased by 10% is 1100
All people see is that 25 is less than 100, so they rush out to grab their pitch forks.