No, this did not start with Barrack Obama.
This started with the leaders in congress over the past 8-10 years. They have been enacting policies that are detrimental to America’s success. They are spending money at an alarming rate - and putting us further into debt that will be near impossible to climb out of.
We need leaders who will put policies in place to reverse this trend. I don’t see the current administration doing anything to succeed in this area.