Shrug it off all you want...but the reality is most entitlement spending requirements were placed on this WH long before they came into office (and the process for reversing those costs takes decades...not years). Which GWB is trying to do for example with private accounts for Soc Sec (though he needs more conservatives elected in the Senate) and with private medical accounts -
Secondly, it is the one area this President can cut without jumping through years of hoops...and he has done just that...cut spending in this area.
Lastly, on the whole federal spending today is lower then the past 30 year average. You don't have to like it, but facts matter and people trying to suggest GWB is spending like no other are simply not being accurate in relation to the growth of this country on the whole.
How is it compared to the Clinton years? You don't sell used cars for your day job do you?
Just keep posting facts, even though there are those here who refuse to accept reality.