This president has had a major war in which he's taking on world-wide terrorism and the wiping out of an entire city (sordid city rotted from within by local and state corruption) by one of this country's worst natural disasters. Comparing this spending to that of any other administrations is an apples and oranges comparision.
Non-defense spending, and spending not including New Orleans, is out of control, and is worse than the democrats ever did. It's simple fact.