He didn't win shit....the Cold War was still alive after he left office....That is not victory..Reagan won the Cold War for that investment...Obama just gave us nothing....So what you are trying to say is, that Reagan not only doubled the debt, he trebled it..Ok thanks for the 411...So did Reagan, and other presidents...He was successful in doubling the national debt in 8 years. In fairness, we must give credit where it is due.
Comparing Obama and Reagan is like comparing apples and aardvarks.
1. Reagan purchased a victory over the Soviet Union...
2. And this:
1. Under Reagan, the debt went up $1.7 trillion, from $900 billion to $2.6 trillion.
2. But….the national wealth went up $ 17 trillion
3. Reagan's near-trillion-dollar bulge in defense spending transformed the global balance of power in favor of capitalism. Spurring a stock-market, energy, venture-capital, real-estate and employment boom, the Reagan tax-rate cuts and other pro-enterprise policies added some $17 trillion to America's private-sector assets, dwarfing the trillion-dollar rise in public-sector deficits and creating 45 million net new jobs at rising wages and salaries.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444914904577621083163383966.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reaganomics#Fiscal_consequences
Try not to sound so ignorant in the New Year.