Please, let’s not forget the Reagan years. That’s when our current mess really started. The twelve years of Reagan and Bush I quadrupled the national debt; the Bush II years doubled it again. The last Republican president to produce a balanced budget was Eisenhower.
It is my belief that since 1980 this has been done on purpose in a strategy known as “starve the beast”. Republicans have just about got us to the point where they can start cutting social programs because of the national debt–that they created.
Keep up the introductions. There are some minor characters I do not recognize.