Recent comments by President Barack Obama have seemed to cause no little stir as he addressed the nation’s current economic crisis by suggesting Americans and Corporations alike reconsider how they plan and take trips to Las Vegas. His comments, coming earlier in 2009 in an Indiana town hall meeting and once again as he addressed a crowd in Nashua, New Hampshire this January, have added to the many criticisms on President Obama’s strategy for rejuvenating the job market, reducing the national debt and health care reform. However, despite the many criticisms, Obama’s point about families using set aside vacation dollars, and not college tuition money, to have fun in Vegas shed light on the struggles that many Americans face every day to make responsible financial decisions. (more…)