You guys are missing my sarcasm. I'm not saying Obama's plan was good, I'm saying that his campaign about change was correct. We needed change. Just not what we have gotten. If you think the fiscal policy and monetary policy were fine before Obama took office, then you have not been paying much attention. We needed change even before he took office, we needed a monetary policy change years ago. Being in a deficit in the trillions is not the right policy. And yet, even before he took office, we kept increasing our debt ceiling. During Clinton's administration, our govt shut down. Where was our monetary policy then. We needed change then too. Foreign aid given to countries that allied against the US. Even if we had a suspicion that they were assisting terrorists, we should have cut them off. Increasing welfare recipients, cause that has worked out so far. Congress kept voting themselves raises when our govt was broke and yet they kept cutting income has salaries for our troops. I can continue but it's late. I'm not disagreeing with anyone. What we currently have in office is nothing less than really bad nightmare. And the end does not seem to be in sight.