National economic growth is usually a factor of Federal spending. If you look at Federal spending over the last 100 years, it has grown exponentially. Spending was halted under Obama (due in part to the obstructionism of the GOP). So while growth was difficult to spark, the "silver lining" being that the Federal Deficit has fallen from $1.4 trillion (under Bush) to just $492 billion (under Obama). NOW... that's none of my business, but whoever posted this meme needs to go back to highschool and retake "Econ 101".