If one begins a debate with a preconceived conclusion, there's little need for any discourse. It seems that you have made up your mind, but I'll try to point out a few fallacies in your thinking anyway.

President Obama has not doubled our debt. He's only been in office for 30 months and a brief review of the record does not show that the national debt has doubled since January 20, 2010. Not even close.

Secondly, the POTUS does not control the country's spending--the House of Representatives does.

Thirdly, as far as the proposal made by the Senate addressing the debt limit crisis, virtually every business group as well as other groups such as AARP have endorsed the ideas incorporated in the plan. Is that fear?

Lastly, was the POTUS sincere when he stated that he expected the economic stimulus expenditures would result in a lowering of the unemployment rate? I'm pretty sure he was. He was wrong. Is he the first politician that made a statement that turned out to be wrong? No, of course not. The media does a wonderful job of gathering examples of what politicians have said in the past and what they say now. All one needs do is watch TV programs like Meet The Press to get all kinds of examples. One might be "...mission accomplished", remember that one? Or how about "...I did not have sex with that woman..."?

There are thousands of examples of politicians making statements that turned out not to be true. The bigger question it seems to me is whether such statements were made to intentionally mislead the public or whether they were simply a mistake or turned out to be a mistake. Should we begin reviewing some of the statements made by candidates for the presidency and then how they try to weasel out of them only days later? I've made my share of mistakes, have you?