Your leaving something out. The national debt started rising fairly dramatically going all the way back to Johnson. You are also not taking into account our military was in bad shape when Reagan took office.

He embarked on a pretty sizable rebuild of our military which ultimately won the cold war for the USA. Military spending is the one thing government is supposed to spend money on. One which I gladly pay my taxes for.

You seem to dislike national debt but your current leader is going to quadruple it or more on wasteful pork spending, bailing everyone and their mother out except of course the one's that play the rules, bank takeovers, etc. Bush is not much better quite honestly but Obama’s spending scheme makes Bush look a rank amateur.

Did you realize the Wells Fargo CEO and also one from another large bank just went public and turned down the bail out money because he said they were in good shape and didn't need it or want it? Do you also realize that Obama's Treasury Secretary forced them to take the money anyway? With strings attached of course.

Are you really keeping an eye on what’s going on here?