The Blame Game

The problem with the scapegoat defense is that at some point somebody has to be held accountable. When George Bush first came into office the national debt

stood at $5.727 trillion

. On September 29, 2008 it stood at

more than $9.849 trillion

.

That's a 71.9 percent increase on Mr. Bush's watch

and

It's the biggest increase under any president in U.S history.

. The debt ceiling was raised seven times during his administration. Why won't congress allow President Obama to raise the debt ceiling seven times? Who is the scapegoat for America's national debt: Bush or Obama? Who takes accountability for putting the U.S. in its worse crisis in recent years? I know that it was Bush leadership that put us into three wars at one time, caused electoral problems like never before, who did little to respond to potential natural disasters, and left the American citizens hanging in limbo. On August 2, President Obama signed the Budget Control Act of 2011. This not only averted a financial crisis, but it also plans to slow the growth rate of the national debt by forming bipartisan committees. He signed this into law while we were still at war; why couldn't President Bush do this? I believe he was to concerned about pleasing donors(oil lobbyist) and the 1%. Did Bush presidency inevitably cause these Occupy Movements? Has Obama fell into the same seat that Richard Nixon fell into when he took office after Lyndon B. Johnson? Although Obama will not commit crimes such as Watergate he was handed a war by his previous President and the American people look to him to end the war. This has made him the scapegoat. But he is not the one we need to blame. It is the 42nd President George W. Bush.