@mpd0.59: Amen!

This article was extremely biased and misinformed. Obama has bent over backwards in spending cuts and the republicans will not give and inch on taxing the wealthiest corporations such as oil companies , who can more than afford to help our nation out. The national debt has actually decreased all four of the years Obama has been in office. Nothing happens overnight and nothing will happen as long as the republicans are determined to stymie any progress that could be made by refusing to work with this administration no matter how it would benefit the country. We were pulled back from a depression by this administration with absolutely no help from republicans. That says a lot.