Where's He Gonna Get $4.3 Trillion?

Back before the 2008 election, Vernon Smith (Econ Nobel Prize, 2002) wrote in the WSJ.

Teaser: "He excels as a rhetorician -- common to both the great and the least of past presidents -- but performance cannot run on that fuel. Inevitably, I think his luster will fade even with his most ardent supporters as that reality sets in."