Originally Posted by
Nightshade
He cut a lot of necessary spending to achieve his goal...look what he did with military spending which should be an ongoing thing just in case and not cut as drastically as it was. He also avoided situations regarding military so they wouldn't have an excuse to add to their budget and ignoring those problems partially led up to the state we are in now.
Can't forget his "credit for everyone" plan...that got us a long ways as we can see

I didn't mention any of that because I didn't want to derail the thread.