@Gking: No hateful comment – but you need to understand the majority of the alleged “45% who don’t pay taxes” are made up of the elderly (who have already spent a lifetime of paying taxes) and students (who will, hopefully, begin paying taxes – providing they can find a job).
@Lamberger: The President doesn’t actually have that much power. Even if, by some tragedy, Ron Paul was elected as President, there would still be increases to the public debt.
I suspect it is more likely a user error than a hardware error.