Other than for going full Reagan by modestly cutting taxes but significantly increasing spending, I'm not sure why people blame Bush for the '08 crisis. The factors that led to it have existed for a rather long time - perhaps you can enlighten me.
For the borrow and spend crowd, that's true. For those invested in failure for political purposes, that's true.
I'm a non-borrowing, non-spending dynamo! My position sees consequences as irrelevant, it's none of my concern if government programs function as intended or not.
foreign outsourcing hit at the same time as Bush was trying his trickle down economics plan... it was a double wammy Bush also banned the declaring bk on unsecured dept, making lenders lend to people that should never of been allowed the lines of credit
The number of ways in which a deficit can trend is severely limited. It can either go up, down, or sideways. Which do you prefer?
