Our Financial Problems - Who is to Blame?

Both the Democrats  and the Republicans  are right about the fiscal problems in The United states, and both are to blame.  Both are blinded by ideology.  Both are enablers of graft and protect their sources of money.   However, the Democrats are (with some Republican bi-partisanship) are responsible for  about 87.5% of the problem, and the Republicans, living in trepidation of disapproval of the media, are suckered into grabbing 18.4% of the responsibility.  Below is an edited excerpt from heritage.org.

                                 All numbers are in Billions of US dollars.

		Discretionary	Entitlement	Interest	Total	Total	Deficit
		Spending	Spending		Spending	Revenue
GWB	2000	799	1236	290	2325	2632	307
Pres.	2001	825	1280	262	2367	2530	163
Rep	2002	918	1383	214	2515	2318	-197
Cong	2003	1010	1448	188	2646	2183	-463
	2004	1066	1474	191	2731	2240	-491
	2005	1117	1521	212	2850	2483	-367
	2006	1135	1577	253	2965	2688	-277
GWB	2007	1131	1574	257	2962	2787	-175
Dem Sen	2008	1205	1694	269	3168	2681	-487
Obama  pres	2009	1300	2199	197	3696	2212	-1484
Dem Cong.	2010	1399	1987	204	3590	2247	-1343
Obama	2011	1371	2062	234	3667	2344	-1323
Dem Sen	2012	1289	2053	220	3562	2435	-1127
Rep House

Doing a little math we get:

Government Average Era Discretionary Entitlement Interest Spending Revenue Deficit Spending Seending  GWB Pres 981 1280 262 2367 2530 -189 Rep Congress GWB President 1168 1634 263 3065 2734 -331 Dems take over Senate Obama & Dem  1349 2093 200 3643 2230 -1414 Senate  and House Obama & Dem Senate 1339 2058 227 3614 2390 -1225 Republican House
The obvious Deficit conclusions we can draw from this are that :
The deficit did not  grow significantly under GWB and a Republican Congress. The deficit grew slightly under GWB and a split Congress. The deficit ballooned under BHO and a Democratic Congress. The deficit stopped ballooning under BHO and a split Congress. The obvious spending  (discretionary and entitlement) conclusion  is that spending grew from an average of  $2367 billion under GWB and a Republican Congress to an average of $3643 billion under BHO with a Democratic Congress.  An average increase of  $1276 billion or  87.5%.  The obvious revenue conclusion is that revenue increased slightly under GWB with a split congress, but significantly decreased under BHO with a Democratic or  split Congress.  It decreased from a high of $2734 billion to a low of $2230 billion,  or $504 billion, 18.4%.  The overall conclusion from this data is that the Republicans are responsible for about 25% of the problem, based on their posturing on taxes and revenue and the Democrats are responsible for about 75 % of the problem, based on their expostulations about taxing the rich.    The gap between increasing spending and decreasing revenue as about $1780 billion dollars.   No wonder we are in trouble. I think the Republican position of no new taxes is based on both the untrustworthyness of their Democratic collegues and the desire to follow the Laffer  pronouncements  with tunnel vision.  The history of the  Democratic position of new taxes to increase revenue without significant spending cuts  has shown that they waste the money they have on supporting  ideological boondoggles and are unthrifty in their spending.  It appears, from the news, that most of the increased spending has gone to bailing out or rewarding high dollar contributors, or falling for every technological scam artist that supports them.  Because of the historic actions of the Democrats and BHO, the Republicans are loathe to trust them any more.   Let's get one thing straight, The republicans think that taxes stiffle business - to an extent they are right.  However, it is probable that only taxes that affect business or commerce stiffle business.   The selected elite that get rich massaging stocks.  The banks and stockbrokers that have forgotten good financial business practices and destroy the economy, while taking home massive golden parachutes; the revolving door between lobbyists and Congress and the Executive are all self serving.   All these actions go into the spending column and our of the revenue column, with none of these actions helping businesses.  I don't think that these kind of tax cut actions were what Laffer was talking about.  That is just graft, and BHO and the Democrats are kings of the graft.  With his ideological blinders and economic stupidity, BHO can never correct the situation.  Pelosi and Reid are in the same class.  The easiest no-cost way to ameliorate the economic situation is to remove the non-productive rules and regulations hampering business.  If he did this, BHO might generate enough revenue to pay for his "Obamacare" dream and still give graft to his supporters.  Alas he is so ideologically driven and economically stupid that this will never happen.