[avacado]

"Amid spending on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and bailouts for the banking and auto industries, the White House has forecast that the budget deficit will hit $1.75 trillion"

Don't blame the wars. They both total about $100 billion per year. That puts Obama at $1.65 trillion! The last Republican Congress complete budget was fiscal 2007 and that only had a $160 billion dollar budget deficit.

[kabar]

$17 billion is 0.05% of the federal budget. It is not even a rounding error. Just more Axelrod PR to fool an ill-informed and dumb electorate.