Stimulus president critical of consumer spending

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President Obama, who passed the 2009 stimulus, has a new economic bogeyman: spending and debt.

Touting new trade agreements (which are good for the economy) during his latest weekly address, Obama pointed to excessive spending as a systemic cause for economic weakness.

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