text: Bush cutting taxes to the rich and fighting 2 unfunded wars had nothing to do with that?  USA ran surpluses under Bill Clinton and was on pace to pay off the debt completely by 2012.  Then W. got elected.  You want to cry about the size of the debt at least point the finger of blame in the right direction. Obama ran up debt trying to breath life into an economy Bush and Greenspan completely destroyed by not regulating Wall Street and the housing market.