What does it mean when the power steering makes a noise? When power steering makes a high-pitched noise, either the power steering fluid is low or the power steering pump is bad. It is usually difficult to turn the wheel of a car when there is a power steering problem.
Even so, Bush ran up the biggest increase in the national debt of any American president. The Debt was 5.727-trillion dollars on his first day in the White House. And on the day he left, it was 10.626-trillion dollars.
Since President Obama took office, the national debt has increased by $7.4 trillion. On January 20, 2009, it stood at $10.6 trillion; on Monday, it was at $18 trillion.That bit of data leapt to the front page of The Drudge Report on Tuesday, linking to an assessment from CNS News.com.Note that this graph is only the held by the public part of the debt.). That's because the increase in debt in the early years of the Obama administration was a largely a response to the imploding economy -- just as the big bulge at the end of the George W. Bush administration (2008) was.