# Did Obama add 6 trillion to the deficit?

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**Created:** [January 22, 2012, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-obama-add-6-trillion-to-the-deficit/610266 "2012-01-22T02:06:23Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 25, 2012, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-obama-add-6-trillion-to-the-deficit/610266/57 "2012-01-25T00:41:40Z")

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> Quoth **PrettyVacant** :  
> Hence the down rating from triple A.

The downrating was because a large chunk of the legislature was insisting that the nation had a moral imperative, overriding all other priorities, to refuse to pay the debts that we owed. I’d be leery about lending money to someone who insisted something that irrational, too. The rating agencies don’t care how much money we borrow; they just care that we’ll pay it back.

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