Reagan was able to limit the growth. But he had to fight uphill the whole time. As I recall the media and the Rats were attacking him for “budget cuts” the whole time.
All he did was slow the increase and try to stem the ability to massively grow it.
That’s over now. Obama will use spending as a means to circle the wagon later and tax this nation to its knees.
Obama is off the charts. By the time he is done, he will have amassed more debt than we have in the entire history of the Republic prior to his taking office. And he will have brought the economy to its knees. Higher taxes and inflation are the next storms to hit us after this massive borrowing. Obama is the wrong man at the wrong time in the wrong place in our history. We may never recover