Why was it OK for Republican President Reagan to raise the debt ceiling 18 times but not Obama?

The poverty rate increased from 11.3% in 2000 to 12.3% in 2006 after peaking at 12.7% in 2004.105 By October 2008, due to increases in domestic and foreign spending,106 the national debt had risen to $11.3 trillion,107108 an increase of over 100% from the start of the year 2000 when the debt was $5.6 trillion. In November 2008, over 500,000 jobs were lost, which marked the largest loss of jobs in the United States in 34 years.125 The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that in the last four months of 2008, 1.9 million jobs were lost.126 By the end of 2008, the U.S. had lost a total of 2.6 million jobs.127 Tl;dr version: By the end of Bush's presidency, the debt had jumped from $5.3 trillion to $11.3 trillion because of his reckless tax cuts for the rich, and America had lost a total of 2.6 million jobs. It was in late-2007 that America entered the worst economic low-point since the Great Depression, not during Obama's Administration.

Why won't you uneducated Republicans search for the facts and numbers first, before saying 'STOP BLAMING BUSH, BLAME OBAMA." We intelligent thinkers will continue to ascribe the blame to Bush, because he's the one who caused it.

I think the Teabaggers and their Republican lap dogs in the House should refuse to raise the debt so no Federal Worker, SS pensioners, or military person gets a paycheck including those in Congress. How else are they going to prove that Obama failed? That should make it a clean sweep for the Democrats next year, Obama, the Senate and House.

Come back Nancy P, we missed ya.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.