"It was wrong when Bush Jr spent like a drunken sailor, but that doesn't excuse Obama for spending like a fleet of drunken sailors."-joihnfibs
But that's the point, dummy.
G.W. is the one who spent like a fleet of drunken sailors, not Obama.
Obama spent like a sailor who woke up from a binge and realized he better start getting his shit together before he gets out of the cushy government job he's got.
As long as you continue to delude yourself about Obama being worse than Bush on spending, there's no way anyone can take you seriously.
Bush spent $2 trillion that didn't need to be spent at all for an elective war that made things much worse than they were when he got there. But the money is still pissed away for good.
Now if that same money had been spent on education and infrastructure, we would be seeing a boom time.
But deficit spending cannot simply be shut off overnight. It must be done gradually to prevent upheaval.
Under Obama the rate of increase has been reversed and actually put on a downward slope, which is exactly what we need to do with the debt. That's a good thing.
If the next Republican President continues this trend, we might get a handle on the problem.
But he won't. The rate of deficit spending will head upward once again, as it always does under Republican Presidents historically.
http://americansforprosperityfoundation ... aQodueQJXg
Here you see the debt climb under Reagan and H.W. Bush, then decline under Clinton, then increrase under G.W. and put into decline under Obama.
That's the Budget Office telling you this, not me, johnny.