text: I thought you were an informed voter Stevenson.  Apparently you've been in a coma for the past eight years.  Otherwise you'd have realized that it was your Republican brethren in Congress that brainstormed  a Just Say No campaign against President Obama.  Furthermore, the president can't spend a dime.  It's Congress that's charged with the responsibility to produce an national budget.  And let's not forget that it was Dubya's two administrations that dragged our military into the two bogus wars that you're talking about, which produced the first $7 trillion.  And let's not forget that it's the Republicans that have generated the so-called Patriots Act which spawned an annual Trillion and another Trillion for the nation's Defense budget.  So much for trying to wipe your uninformed hands  clean.