You do realize that on a percentage increase basis, Bush II was the biggest offender of incrementally higher debt?
A statistical anomaly that is not a fair reflection. Let's say the national debt was $1 when Bush took office, and $5 trillion when he left. That means the debt went up 50,000,000,000% when he was in office. Let's say the next guy pushes it from $5 trillion to $15 trillion. His percentage increase was only 200%, much lower than the last guy. But he actually did a much worse job.
Bush also gets dinged for spending that occurred after he left office. His final budget was $400B in the red. But that only went through Feb 2009. In Feb, the Dems passed the second part of the budget which pushed that number closer to $1.6 trillion. And the MSM to this day attributes that to Bush even though it was Baraq Obama that signed it.
In 2006, we were heading in the right direction. The deficit was around $160B. And the GOP had the opportunity to privatize part of Social Security. But they blew it. Then 2007 happened, and the rest is history.
Both parties are highly complicit in this disaster.
100%. Sadly, the Dems are able to do far more when the GOP controls part of Congress than when the Dems have hefty majorities in both houses.