So with those numbers Bush cut 2.85 trillion in taxes letting corporations and citizens keep more of the money they earned and spent huge amounts of money on defense and even taking into account the 230 billion surplus we're only 1.2 trillion in debt instead of 2.62 trillion? I guess a lot of that money did "trickle down" after all.

In the past we've had tax and spend democrats, now it looks like it's going to be spend and tax democrats. The problem with the new bailout plan is it's full of pork and social projects that do nothing to fix the current financial situation. The banks still aren't lending money and people still aren't buying houses and vehicles like we need them to. I can see everyone paying more taxes in the future to pay off our debt. Well everyone but people on welfare or with really low incomes. The rich are going to get hit hard and that will cause unemployment to stay high.

True we can't blame Obama for the problems he inherited but we can blame him for breaking almost every campaign promise he made and not getting off to a very promising looking start to his administration.