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Laughs in Obama spending spree that pushed public debt to >100% levels.
But hey, he just fucked next generation, that's not your problem.
I'll preface this by saying he should have taxed the fucking rich to close the gap, but that said, he was pretty much gonna have to spend a shitload of money. That's the consequence of inheriting the 2008 crash. Economic stimulation by government spending is like the typical solution to an economic disaster. Had he not inherited 8 years of Bush, he almost certainly would have spent less. To be fair to Bush, if I remember right and I might not, I think some of the causes of the 2008 crash came from earlier, but I'm fuzzy on the details now. Bush also watched the problem metastasize for 8 years without doing a damn thing in the best case, though, so not much credit due to him.
So yeah, Obama racked up a ton of debt, but he did a lot of it cleaning up the mess of predecessors. He should have taxed the piss out of the rich, especially since they're the ones who both manufactured and profited off the disaster, but fuck, NOBODY in the US government seems willing to even entertain the idea.
There's always an "important" reason to overspend. Trump went spending spree during COVID pushing debt to GDP into 130% levels temporarily. Yet most of the world went through the same turmoil without turning their finances into junkie credit card level of bad. Fuck must of EU hods debts within reasonable margins while having state run healthcare and supporting Ukraine war efforts as of late.
A lot of the covid spending was supposed to be loans, not permanent expenses, though. But then Trump gutted the oversight of the loans and made it easy for businesses to plunder the funds and then get the loans forgiven.
I bet you clap with your fingers spread