Whichever president decides to fight congress to the death on the budget will have to settle on a single term. And after they are gone congress will go right back to spending again.
The process desperately needs changing and, even more importantly, the American people need educating on the eventual catastrophic ramifications of continued deficit spending. Total economic collapse will be a near extinction level event.
@skeeter I agree. Fundamentally the problem is not with elected officials, it's with we, the people, who continue to elect them. So it won't be enough to have a president who's willing to be defeated for re-election; we need a majority of Representatives and Senators who are similarly willing. But as long as we have a FedGov that spends in the trillions, the power trip enjoyed by the legislators who dole out that money is just too large; it's not within the flaws of the human condition to lay aside that kind of influence.
So at some point I tend to come back to my friend
@roamer_1 's position :
starve the beast. Unfortunately we've delegated to that beast the power to compel that we feed it as much as it wants. The only way to turn this around is to confront and take back that power. And since we can't trust our elected legislators to represent us effectively on that, I don't have a short-term alternate solution to offer. The real solution is a much longer term counterattack through the media and education to change how rank-and-file Americans think, and those grounds are completely against us.