If people rise up in arms . . .

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In terms of adding to the national debt, Shrub added $4.5 trillion. Thus far Obama has added $2.0 trillion, but he's still working on it. In fairness, a good amount of deficit in Obama's first year were the economic band-aids aimed at fixing the damage done by Shrub (and introduced during the latter months of Shrub's administration).

Parsimony is not a trait of the American body politic.