of course someone as ill informed as you would use the number 9 trillion yet an informed person knows that when Obama took office it was already 4 months into the government's fiscal year. The appropriations were already passed and put into cement. A first year civics student knows that once an appropriation bill is signed the President HAS to spend the money as directed. So the only thing we can add that could be pinned onto Obama was the stimulus and most of that money was spent in 2010, 2011, and a little in 2012. That 2009 deficit was 1.4 trillion so you should start your counting with fiscal year 2010. Of course a Nitwit would take into consideration the war costs and also the unpaid prescription drug benefit program and the high unemployment costs that cause our deficits to spike. But then once a nitwit always a nitwit. It's such a shame as some people cannot escape their genetic make-up as it probably runs in the family.