The Wall Street debable didn't just occur overnight, it was essentially a snowball of greed(started in 1913) that rolled down a mountian, gaining in size and speed and then plowed into the people at the bottom of the hill. Everyone since 1913 inculding Clinton could have stopped it or slowed it down but instead pushed the snowball to make it go that much faster. The part that Bush is responsible for is that because of the war in Iraq, the US had to transfer a portion of it's wealth to other Countries to pay for the war. Now there is not enough money to stop the people hit by the snowball from hemoraging.