Come again?
It appears debt under Carter and the preceding presidents was on the down turn.
National Debt Graph by President
ALL funding of unconstitutional programs is debt that must be repaid eventually.
When considering the national debt, it's instructive to know that under Clinton the ten trillion dollar (10^10!!!!) national debt was easily seen to be the sum of the unconstitutional expenditures on Social Security, Welfare, and other programs. It did not include the unconstitutional spending on education and other federal programs lacking constitutional basis.
Furthermore, you seem to ignore that Reagan held the power of the Veto. And only 9 of his 39 vetos were overriden.
Boy, this is retarded.
You people can't seem to figure out that mature adults, especially a mature adult trying to get the nation into recovery from the Disaster Known as Carter AND trying to secure victory against the Evil Empire, could not veto omnibus spending bills that would have crashed the economy if not passed.
You people want to pretend that little fairies exist that can work miracles, while the adults are actually constrained to stay in the real world and deal with real problems realistically. But, when they do that, you want to pretend their failure to wave your magic wand places the blame for the natural consequences on their shoulders, and not on the shoulders of the corrupt politicians who engineered the circumstances to turn out in that fashion.
And your refusal to blame those people comes from no other source than your own ignorant partisan loyalties to ideological principles that are the antithesis of the Constitutional principles that made this nation a success.
But you still want to post smarmy ignorant statements like "gee, where's the veto pen", as if that's the answer to the problems facing the nation today.
What's really retarded is that the Mayor is obligated to give this lecture to so many silly people and no matter how often the Mayor corrects them, there's always another ignorant person that will refuse to learn and will continue to post his ignorance.
To absolve him of spending problems seems highly dishonest.
What's extremely dishonest to pretend Tip O'Neill's role in busting the budget was irrelevant, as is noting that the budget busting items were the unconstitutional items the Democrats expanded.
Also, note the vast tissue of lies propounded in the 1980's, the 3 million homeless bums that were somehow Reagan's fault, who magically vanished when the felonious perjeror was elected president. Note the scorn of the left-wing dominated media over Reagan's Space Defense Initiative. Note the continued lies about the alleged "mistakes of the past" when, rather than mistakes, Reagan's supply side economics reversed Carter's stagflation and generated 22 million jobs by the time Reagan left office.
Because Obama believes allowing the people who earn their money to keep their money is a "mistake", Obama is seeing an inflationary surge and an economy stalling in preparation for a second recession, just when he's dragged the nation into a third war without getting us out of either of the other two.