I got three words for you: “Medicare Part D”
Largest entitlement expansion in a generation, and a significant contributor to the country being broke today.
If you take note, we were actually growing out of the debt we were in despite part D. What you clearly won't recognize is who actually bankrupted us. Notice the graph moving in the wrong direction in '08. I wonder what happened then?
I don't like part D either, but it is far from what broke the camels back. Put the blame where is squarely belongs.