I've seen a lot of these political advertisements that show both candidates making promises, spouting line after line of political rhetoric and I wondered to myself: "Can these guys really do what they say they are going to do?" In case you are wondering the same thing, they can't. The U.S. constitution gives the power to the Legislative branch (Congress) to raise taxes (Article 1, Section 7). So when we talk about the economy and things of an economic nature the president can't do as much as most people think he can do. So before we blame the president for our current economic status or before we lead ourselves to believe that a new president is going to significantly change our economic policies think again. If you really want some change get rid of you representatives in the congress, that's where we need the change. Now granted it's not as simple as that, but those are the basics as I see them.