I think there is plenty of blame to go around for this economy; wall street, banks, congress, and individual citizens.

You frame it as spending problem, but what we are really talking about is the deficit. So why renew a tax break for the wealthy that adds an additional 700 billion to the deficit? For all the middle class Republican voters, did everyone get the fact that the Republicans were holding the chronically unemployed hostage to get their tax break renewal for the wealthy?