But lingering debt woes from its last boom-and-bust cycle should hopefully reduce the risk of runaway spending.

To assure a sustained recovery, we must continue getting runaway spending under control to bring those deficits down.

There have been undisputed successes in controlling the government's runaway spending and strengthening the banking system, but progress has been slow in other areas.

It would say that he was going to tackle the hardest issues-Iraq ,immigration ,ethics ,entitlements ,runawayspending-withno regard for reelection.