http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20091210/congress-may-raise-national-debt-ceiling-by8-billion-report.htm
Obama hopes to raise the national debt ceiling (the amount of money the federal government can borrow) by 1.8 trillion dollars. This means our federal government would be borrowing AT LEAST 50 cents for every dollar spent this upcoming year. Now, that's change we can believe in.