[Hoot Gibson]

Obama is seeking to cut the federal deficit by $1.1 trillion over the next 10 years, including a $78 billion to the defense budget over five years. Liberal Democrats slashing defense spending has become an American tradition.

Fortunately for Democrats, Americans tend to remain willfully ignorant of current events and recent history that does not involve sporting events or celebrity trash. If more Americans paid attention to events that actually affect their daily lives, then they would understand that Obama has added more than $2 trillion to the national debt in his first two years and is projected to post a $1.5 trillion dollar budget deficit in 2011.

No American president or Congress has ever added as much to the national debt in such a short time as Obama and the Pelosi/Reid Congress but Obama is apparently casting himself as a deficit hawk.

It is a pretty good bet that upwards of 45 percent of American voters will come to believe that Obama is in favor of bringing federal spending under control despite his dismal record. It is a sad commentary on American society that Obama would have the audacity to even make such a claim but his low opinion of Americans' knowledge of government and economics is pretty well founded.

What say y'all, has President Obama become a fiscal conservative or is this just another one of his cynical political stunts?

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Obama seeks to cut deficit by $1.1 trillion

(Reuters) - President Barack Obama's proposed budget for fiscal 2012 will seek to cut the record federal deficit by $1.1 trillion over the next 10 years, White House budget director Jack Lew said Sunday.
Lew, speaking on CNN, said the president was also on track to halve the budget deficit by the end of his first term in office, which goes through 2012.

Obama is set to present his budget to Congress Monday. He intends to get two-thirds of the savings from spending cuts and one-third from tax revenues, including by closing several tax loopholes, according to sources familiar with the budget.

A Democratic aide said the budget would reduce Pentagon spending by $78 billion over five years.

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[Old School]

Obama is no fiscal conservative, he has however realized that if he is to ever have a chance to be re-elected in 2012 he will have to change his method of governing, for at least the next two years. Regardless of how far Obama moves to the center, between now and the 2012 election, if re-elected he will move back to the left, even further than he ever has been before.

[Hoot Gibson]

Obama is no fiscal conservative, he has however realized that if he is to ever have a chance to be re-elected in 2012 he will have to change his method of governing, for at least the next two years. Regardless of how far Obama moves to the center, between now and the 2012 election, if re-elected he will move back to the left, even further than he ever has been before.

I don't think that Obama has any intention of changing the way that he governs or moving an inch toward the center. People like him believe that they can do one thing in broad daylight and convince people that he did not do what there own eyes just told them that he did. Why move to the center when the mainstream media will give him credit for moving to the center like Clinton actually did and making ridiculous comparisons between Obama and Ronald Reagan?

Obama and his handlers believe that he has a "messaging" problem not a substantive problem. Polls that show that Americans still have a much higher opinion of Obama than of Democrats in general reinforce this delusion.

Obama will finally meet with Congressional Republican leaders but he is not going to do much compromising and he will not stop blaming Republicans, talk radio, Fox News, and a host of other scapegoats for his own failures.

[BillyB]

Obama is the only one to blame for all the problems in our economy. He is an economic fascist intent on ruining this country through fiscal suicide. Really, that's his plan.

[Aslan]

Obama is seeking to cut the federal deficit by $1.1 trillion over the next 10 years, including a $78 billion to the defense budget over five years. Liberal Democrats slashing defense spending has become an American tradition.

Fortunately for Democrats, Americans tend to remain willfully ignorant of current events and recent history that does not involve sporting events or celebrity trash. If more Americans paid attention to events that actually affect their daily lives, then they would understand that Obama has added more than $2 trillion to the national debt in his first two years and is projected to post a $1.5 trillion dollar budget deficit in 2011.

No American president or Congress has ever added as much to the national debt in such a short time as Obama and the Pelosi/Reid Congress but Obama is apparently casting himself as a deficit hawk.

It is a pretty good bet that upwards of 45 percent of American voters will come to believe that Obama is in favor of bringing federal spending under control despite his dismal record. It is a sad commentary on American society that Obama would have the audacity to even make such a claim but his low opinion of Americans' knowledge of government and economics is pretty well founded.

What say y'all, has President Obama become a fiscal conservative or is this just another one of his cynical political stunts?

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Why has Obama gotten us into even more debt? Shouldn't getting this country out of debt be high on the priority list?

[jetpilot]

I don't think that Obama has any intention of changing the way that he governs or moving an inch toward the center. People like him believe that they can do one thing in broad daylight and convince people that he did not do what there own eyes just told them that he did. Why move to the center when the mainstream media will give him credit for moving to the center like Clinton actually did and making ridiculous comparisons between Obama and Ronald Reagan?

Obama and his handlers believe that he has a "messaging" problem not a substantive problem. Polls that show that Americans still have a much higher opinion of Obama than of Democrats in general reinforce this delusion.

Obama will finally meet with Congressional Republican leaders but he is not going to do much compromising and he will not stop blaming Republicans, talk radio, Fox News, and a host of other scapegoats for his own failures.

Bingo.

[RunItUpTheGut]

The idea of cutting pell grants is ridiculous. If it wasnt for pell grants i would have never been able to attend college like so many others.
It will hurt A LOT of eastern Kentucky families if that happens.

[Hoot Gibson]

The idea of cutting pell grants is ridiculous. If it wasnt for pell grants i would have never been able to attend college like so many others.
It will hurt A LOT of eastern Kentucky families if that happens.

IMO, a college education has become nothing but a scam for most people. What right does anybody have to force somebody else to pay for their college education? All federal subsidies for tuition (with the exception of ROTC and other programs tied to military service) should be eliminated.

Federal involvement is what caused the escalating cost of tuition, which has been rising much faster than the rate of overall inflation for years. The result is that even with grants and other federal aid, most students are still paying more out of pocket than the benefits of their college degree is worth.

It is time to slash salaries of college professors and administrators and to scrap expensive campus construction projects. Fancy buildings are not necessary for true learning to take place.

[Beetle01]

My only hope is Hillary runs for President. At this point I would probably vote for her over all other contenders, including Republicans.

[Old School]

My only hope is Hillary runs for President. At this point I would probably vote for her over all other contenders, including Republicans.

I'm no fan of Hillary's by any means, but she would have been a much better President than Barry. So would have millions of others.