You can thank the Repugnant's for most of that 21 Trillion and unbridled capitalism which has created virtual monopolies in every industry.  Megamergers for "efficiency".... yes absolute efficiency in making maximum profits at the expense of the Consumer with little to no competition and to the detriment of Workers with little choice of alternative employment in a given industry.  Companies no longer have to compete for workers when a worker only has a couple corporate choices for employment.  No competition equals lower pay.

"W" started a war with Iraq based on a complete lie which has easily added 6 Trillion and counting to the deficit.  Wars equal huge profits for the Industrial Military Complex aka corporate welfare, Repugnant style corporate "profits".  Like Cheney’s former company Haliburton which decided to go into the "catering" business... to feed ALL our troops in Iraq through a NO BID contract.  It was the first time in history that the Military did NOT feed itself!  

Trump & the Repugnant's just became the the FIRST Administration to add 1 trillion dollars in a SINGLE year to the defict!! The current Repugnant tax scam will add 10 trillion dollars to the deficit and they are planning part Deux to add more to the deficit, of course only to the benefit of those making over tens of millions per year.  It's now legal to write off 100% of your private jet.

If you look at the deficit charts over the last 40 years, the Democrats routinely have lowered the deficit while they're in the office and the Repugnant's have increased it.

Clinton was the last President to run a budget surplus but of course most people don't know that because all they know is about is a certain blow job. 

Obama inherited an absolute mess from "W", a near depression; but, over his 8 years consistently LOWERED ANNUAL spending and the annual deficit.

The Repugnant's are the actually the spendaholics and the Democrats are now the conservatives but with the Repugnant disinformation machine running at Full Tilt with unlimited campaign money thanks to the Repugnant Supreme Court appointments voting to allow the Citizens United ruling allowing those unlimited campaign donations by the richest entities in the world (yes even foreign entities and governments can now buy our elections) you can count on more deficits and you can count on the middle class being eliminated if it already isn't. Yet counter-intuitively the middle class keeps voting the Repugnant's in office.

You can't fix stupid and the Repugnant's are doing their best to keep people stupid including siphoning off money from the public school systems to fund charter schools which of course is code language for religious schools.

Okay enough for a reality check and an actionable education lesson, now most of you can go back to your political delusions.

I get your point, except the Congress that brought deregulation has an entirely different membership today.

That's what I do. I don't ever look at US carriers when booking to Asia.

The US is a constitutional republic. The constitution does give congress responsibility for some regulation. The great continuing debate is how much and exactly what regulation is most appropriate. Keeping the debate constructive and rational is a tough battle!

Ahhh... YES it IS congresses ABSOLUTE responsibility to legislate & control capitalism. Unbridled capitalism IS an oligarchy which we are real close to now!

Andy you need a basic civics education which you clearly do NOT have and Faux News is exasperating you lack of understanding!

You're under the impression that Congress is comprised of the same people it was in 1978?