documents. days after president obama made a surprise visit to afghanistan, defense secretary robert gates did the same thing. gates stopped at a base in kunar province to visit with troops there. more than 1.1 billion $100 bills have been put into time-out while the fed and officials look for the printing problem that has been unusable, really. the bills were supposed to be released next year, and were the first of a high-tech note that included a 3d security ribbon, but obviously there are some problems with it. officials are combatting a sporadic creasing of the paper that is causing small blank spaces. back to the drawing board so, to speak. some democrats are angry about the tax cut deal between president obama and gop leaders. they say the president gave in too much and got too lit until return. now, while he was running for president, of course candidate obama's props was no tax cut extension for the wealthy.