Politically he can't veto spending, even if legally he can. The reality is that the President is mostly a figurehead, bought and paid for just like Congress and

Politically he can't veto spending, even if legally he can. The reality is that the President is mostly a figurehead, bought and paid for just like Congress and trapped by chains of patronage and party. That's why nothing changes. Pay attention to who his advisers are. Notice who has benefited over the last three decades of political change. Read some real history. > Surely we can do away with them. What are you going to do with the military and their families? To the contractors and suppliers? And the jobs and businesses that relies on the war gravy train? You need a "real" stimulus and infrastructure program. Otherwise you are looking at an much larger number of unemployed group of people, many which are soldiers. We have some real big problems in the United States, which will not be solved, because it's not interests of the people in control to solve them.