Is President Obama a big spender?
Public sector employment has contracted under Barack Obama, as it did under Ronald Reagan; the real "big government" types were the two Bushes
How Politics Damaged Obama’s Recovery (CHART)
Republicans bucked historically bipartisan policies to thwart the president.
A lull in the debt crisis
The problem is, 70% of the spending reductions in the bill are not scheduled to occur until 2017 to 2021.