Actually the growth in Spending is lower under Obama than other presidents unfortunately with the recession he inherited , and the tax cuts (revenue is at it's lowest since after WW2).
http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2012/05/24/who-is-the-smallest-government-spender-since-eisenhower-would-you-believe-its-barack-obama/
Meanwhile with his Tax Cuts Rush Limbaugh had an extra $1M to throw around to
hire Elton to sing at his wedding ($200K more the entire GSA spent in Las Vegas),
goofballs Republicans are the biggest wasteful spenders!
It's so funny how Republicans say $850B over a decade (the higher income tax cuts)
isn't much money or $40B to oil companies (tax breaks for doing nothing)
over a decade isn't much money, but any $1M wasted on something they don't like is a huge deal to them!, they don't seem to know $850B and $40B is more than $1M (or even $100M).
So nobody with even 1/2 a brain could think the Republicans are really serious about cutting the national debt!, if they were they would be demanding an end to all the Bush tax cuts (that would save about $3.5 Trillion+ over a decade).