A) Election results consistently prove that wrong. B) Fair enough. C) "Welfare" state -- depends what you define as welfare, this is only true if you include things the state has little say about like military spending, social security and medicare, BIA benefits, and so on. D) National debt almost doubled under 8 years of Obama. Fact is both parties have a spending problem... too easy to promise more now that which needs to be repaid decades down the road.