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Panola: If you took logic or physics courses in school you should ask for your money back. Ever hear of the phrase cause and effect? Of course the national debt has risen. How could it not have? The deficit problems Obama inherited have been getting larger and larger with every passing minute. Debt works that way, check out your mortgage and you will see what the real cost of your home is. What has not happened is our country has not sufferred an economic collapse because of the policies our President has taken. The Bush administration caused our problems and like a long term loan, there are cascading costs associated with that debt. Our country would be in much worse shape if Obama had not acted a she did. Actually, the majority of the Bush economic adivisors advocated the same policies Obama adopted. As for the article, of course Obama will be reelected. Have you seen the candidates running against him? The front runners do not believe in science much less understand economics. They would rather leave the driving up to the Good Lord. We all know what happens when we take our hands off the steering wheel. The President is doing the best he can in spite of his oppositions efforts. Compared to the job losses sufferred under Bush, this President has a record of increasing jobs. Just not enough jobs to bring our nation out of the hole. Initiating an effective jobs program can be accomplished sooner then fixing the deficit. Jobs must be our only priority until we get our citizens back to work. All it takes is honest men and women working together to approve a national goal to solve this problem. Signing pledges or drawing lines in the sand concerning programs that do not concern putting our nation back to work is simply politics. The debt is a long term problem and will eventually be taken care of. Our country is strong and will survive the actions of the last president. Call your Representative and ask them what they are doing to increase jobs. Tell them you are paying their salary and you demand they get to work. For that matter, ask the Governor when he is going to start presenting a job program that will help people today, not in 10 years time. He did promise jobs for FLorida. The majority of Americans know that Obama started with a really big mess. He is slowly digging us out. Rather then be negative, you should work to help him out and stop supporting the so called job creators who don't create anything despite 8 years of the lowest tax rates in our history. They are increasing their personal wealth at the expense of the rest of us. It is becoming clear to more and more Americans that we have some people in this country more concerned with advancing their own political idiology then with curing our ills. Help the President to keep us out of the ditch and don't let those who drove us into it, do it again.