[familyofman]

"The President has charted a course for cutting the budget deficit in half in five years."

After you cut a deficit in half - what do you have? Answer = a deficit. That means W expects deficits for his entire second term. And he wants us to regard him as a fiscal conservative. I don't think so.

How about a constitutional ammendment to balance the budget?

[hobbes1]

Deficits are far more conservative in Principle, that Surpluses.

Deficits tell the American people that their government spends too much.....

Is it better that government should have a collar on spending, or extra money in its pcokets.