Color me unconvinced.
“Obama sends Congress $3.73 trillion budget”
SEND IT BACK and tell boy wonder that he needs to sharpen his pencil. Tell him cuts that occur after his first term is an insult. Tell him that if he refuses to do the right thing, he should step aside and let the adults take over.
Practically every politician in DC is afraid of touching SS, Mediscare, and Medicaid even though those three programs are probably over half the budget.
Imagine you had a stack of $1,000 bills. $1 million would be a stack eight inches high. $1 billion would be over 667 feet high (think of the Washington Monument). And $1 trillion would be a stack 126 MILES high.
Obama’s $3.73T budget is a stack of $1000 bills 470 miles high.
Lots of miles of “tough choices and sacrifices” to choose from. How many “sacrifices and choices PER MILE, will OB get?”
$100B (in cuts) is only 1.26 miles of the budgetary stack distance.
Some things never change.