Analyzing the national debt and how it ballooned to over $16 trillion is going to be done a lot by political analysts and economists. There was a very big rise in the national debt in the 2000s that coincided with the wars and the much-criticized Bush presidency.
The Obama presidency has had to inherit a lot of this debt and be able to pay it off. Is it really fair to blame George W. Bush's presidency on the current debt problems? Let's take a look at the facts. The eight years of the Bush presidency saw the U.S. debt go up by $4.899 trillion to $10.626 trillion. Now the national debt has gone past $16 trillion as Obama approaches the end of his first term in office.
