NEW YORK CITY-The latest GlobeSt.com poll challenged readers to place blame for the country’s economic woes. Faced with Congress, Wall Street, the Democrats, the Republicans and “the country’s defeatist attitude,” blame was evenly divided between Congress and the Democrats.

Some 34% of the hundreds of respondents said that the Democrats—and President Obama—were to blame while 30% blamed “a shiftless Congress.”

However, Gregory Leisch, the chief executive of Delta Associates in Alexandria, VA, tells GlobeSt.com that the real answers were too multi-faceted to break out in the poll.

“Like all complex problems there are complex causes and I think whenever you try to ask a problem parsed into such simple and simplistic answers you get meaningless results,” Leisch says. “It’s a very complex set of problems that led to the economic problems that we have. I think any thoughtful person would find it hard to disagree with that.”

Leisch thinks that “at the root of it is unbridled greed,” though, however blame for the greed is assigned. “But we also have a dysfunctional government, so if you’re a Democrat you blame the Tea Party and if you’re a Republican you blame the President and if you’re an Independent you don’t know who to blame and so you blame Congress.”

A relatively small percentage—13%—said that the economy was Wall Street’s fault. But Leisch points out that the business community is unlikely to blame itself. Ultimately, he says, the recession and its aftermath have been the result of “a combination of factors” and the GlobeSt.com poll didn’t allow for a longer, thought-out response.

Plus, he adds, “I think a better question is ‘what’s keeping us from making faster progress?’”

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