MJPLIFE11, you are correct, GDP growth was slower under the previous administration and the previous administration ran up the debt, big time. Kudos for you to point that out. But personally I am grateful to the previous administration. If I am not mistaken when the previous administration came into office it inherited negative GDP growth and a financial crises that threatened to throw the country into a depression rivaling the Great Depression. I remember my thought at the time. What a terrible time for a black man to be elected president. Maybe that was why he was elected so that he would fail. Too bad it didn't happen the way a lot of people were hoping it would.