Oh my, was that close! Thank goodness. The President straightened out a huge number of Citizens who had previously been under the near-panicked conclusion that America had some serious problems to overcome. Many were justifiably concerned that the US level of debt would soon become crippling if something wasn't done and right away; however, Obama's enlightened words in the State of The Union speech indicated to us all the stranger than fiction "truth" ( or is that stranger than truth fiction?) which we all had yearned to hear for oh so long. As it apparently turns out, all of that budget and deficit talk was merely much ado about nothing, as most of the Nations problems evaporated away quicker than a globally warmed Himalayan glacier. more »