“Obama added 1/3rd of our national debt in a 3.5 years with no plan to stop spending.”
Let’s take a little responsibiity here. Ultimately, it’s Congress that passes the budget each year, and determines government spending and deficits, not the president. And Congress keeps spending more than it takes in because WE want it to. Because we want all the benefits without paying the bills.
We’ve been on a spending spree for at least 30 years, and only for the smallest fraction of that time did we actually take in enough revenue to pay for it. When we realized that we promptly gave ourselves a tax cut and increased our spending too, of course. Congress keeps behaving outrageously because we only will elect people to Congress who tell us that we don’t have to pay our bills, that we can spend all we want and cut our taxes too. We believe in magic, and will continue to believe until the wheels come off.
Is it Congress that “controls the purse”. I know that is what it SAYS but how long now has there “been no budget”. No one cares.