Because the budget is not what spends beyond the budget. The person sitting behind the Resolute Desk authorizing the spending beyond the budget is what creates the debt.
Not what spends beyond the budget? So what exactly are you saying that Obama spent so much money on beyond the budget? Now you need to be specific here, and you need to provide items that do not need to be approved by the Republican Congress beforehand. Otherwise all the stuff you list will be blood that is not just on Obama's hands but that of both parties.
There is a budget. The only way you can have a deficit (which is annual) that ultimately becomes the national debt (which is the total accumulative) is to spend beyond that budget. The budget (created by George W. Bush before leaving office for 2009) cannot spend beyond itself. It is an inanimate object. It is the person sitting in the Oval Office who approves the spending beyond that budget. It doesn't matter what Bush's budget was for 2009, if Obama had stuck to it, there wouldn't have been one penny in deficit for 2009.
Ok, then what do you say about the fact that Obama took over an economy that was in a nose dive and that the war in Iraq and Afghanistan that was was the most contributing factor to that deficit and the overall addition to that national debt, was started before he even took office?
If you look at the article I posted, it shows that Obama actually decreased the deficit every year since he took office, which is ironic given the fact that Obamacare was supposed to waste so much money and contribute so much to the national debt. So you don't see it as a positive that the national deficit has steadily declined under Obama? That if things continue that we will eventually be in the black as a country?
Well for starters - it's not the responsibility of the executive branch to spend money or "rescue" the economy. There should have been
no bailouts (and of course that goes for Bush as well).
And while a declining deficit is
always a good thing - it's misleading because he's still spending way beyond other presidents. He's just spending slightly less than he was previously spending. And even that's deceiving because it's been a conservative house and senate putting pressure on him and blocking bills he wants to slow down that spending (which is why it is lower now than when he had Pelosi running the House and Reid running the Senate).
As much as I dislike Trump - I do love his plan for attacking these deficits. $19 trillion is insane and it has us on the brink of economic collapse.