There is blame to go around, but the fact remains that the house, the city and the culture Angie so graciously shared with me are being drained of their vitality while we fight.
And while everyone has their point of view as to who is to blame for this, how is the blame game going to make anyone feel better when we end up forcing the country back into the Great Recession or worse?
Another popular view (Michael Medved in USA Today is the latest to promote it) is that Hollywood is to blame.
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There is much debate within Bertelsmann about who is to blame for its failure to spot the danger sooner.
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And if Ed Balls, or anyone else, says austerity is to blame and needs to be reversed, the OBR has given him a ready answer to that, too.
To a large extent, it is Mr Guterres himself who is to blame for this year's spending excesses.
Cardello agrees with Hartung that Hostess management is to blame, for failing to alter its products amid dramatic changes in consumer tastes.
To be fair, it is difficult to blame Priebus for failing to confront CPAC.
There is some blame to be placed on regulators for not stepping in sooner and forming some kind of independent agency for Libor.
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Or maybe fighting too many wars in too many places is to blame along with our unwillingness to pay a reasonable level of taxes, based on ability, to fight these wars.
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The argument about to what extent EA is responsible for these changes to games, and how much the invisible hand of the market is to blame, will be fought over for a long time to come.
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Whoever is to blame, the state was bound to go broke one day, and hey, today's that day!
And anyone looking to quantify how much any specific factor is to blame could find it a tough issue to study.
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East Lindsey District Council said the odour diaries would help determine if an Anglian Water sewage plant is to blame, and potentially help the council to take legal action.
Mr. Banks said the city is to blame because it allowed so much time to pass without any means to move people out of shelters, causing the homeless population to explode through inaction.
Several different bacteria can cause meningitis but Neisseria meningitidis -- which is to blame for this outbreak -- is one of the most significant because of its potential to cause epidemics.
Who else is to blame if student-athletes themselves choose not to make the most of these resources?
The cause of the fire is under investigation, but authorities believe lightning is to blame.
Despite the trends, more study is necessary to determine whether American acculturation is entirely to blame for poor diets among Latinos, an expert says.
So, if the removal of the forests from the mountains whose rivers feed the coastal cities is not to blame for disastrous floods, what is?
While he is not to blame for its failure, neither is a former baggage handler or middle management employee who will walk away with nothing .
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The financial crisis is to blame for the depth of the recent recession and partly to blame for the slow economic recovery.
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Curiously, some elements remain unchanged, such as color gamut, which is 138 percent of the sRGB standard across all displays and is to blame for images that appear over-saturated.
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The end of the Thatcher-era also comes at a point when many politicians are debating to what extent the neo-Liberal economic model espoused by Thatcher is to blame for the economic crisis of the last five years and what direction to take next.
"You could say that Uruk is to blame for bureaucracy, " Mr. Wartke said half-jokingly when referring to the city's penchant for validating and recording goods.
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Still, Mr Dornbusch's main point, that it is wrong to blame the currency board for all of Argentina's ills, is surely right.
The Bar Council, representing all barristers in England and Wales, believes that poor court management is to blame for the length and cost of long fraud trials, not juries' failure to grasp complex evidence.
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