Originally Posted by Barefootsies

'They' did not bother counting for 8 years of Bush. Why count now?

Airlines.
Wall Street.
Investment Banks.
New Orleans.
911 Victims.

....and so on.

The only people who seem to be making the media sound bites are the now, all of a sudden, fiscally conservative Republicans. Who for 8 years, 6 of it controlling the Senate, House, and Presidency, ran up one of the worst debts in American history.

Someone has to clean it up, and it's going to cost money.