When will you ignorant fools ever understand that the president does not control spending levels? The president can ask for whatever he wants, but congress controls the purse. Democrats held congress during Reagan's presidency, if you want to blame someone for deficit spending, blame them.
What a president can do is submit his proposed budget, and when his proposed budget is as much or more than the one actually passed, this kind of arguement really holds no water. But of course you just want to ignore that and blame spending on the democrats.
