Obama has cut spending, had to deal with Bushs mess, does not have the SS surplus that Reagan, Bush and Bush used to hide much of their record deficits and much of Obamas deficit is the caused by the shortage in the SS fund. Then Obama has had to deal with Republicans promise to screw up everything until we get rid of the Black President.
So get this through your heads. The Republicans are the one who waste money, they increase welfare (much of it is for the rich) and even with their record tax increases they set record deficits.
Good lord, why would you vote for a Republican?
They voted republican because Bush started two wars AND cut taxes at the same time, and they thought this was a grand idea. That is the conservative's idea of sound fiscal policy.
Actually we have to go back to LBJ and his war on poverty and his great society programs.
LBJs war on poverty was to use government surplus food to help the poor rather than spend money to store the food.
Nixon, better know as a crook and as a traitor, along with then Southern Democrats (now the Republican Party) are the ones who took welfare to the next level.