[mojito]

White House chief of staff William Daley said. "Everyone agrees that a number around $4 trillion is the number that will ... make a serious dent in our deficit."

Let's do the math, shall we? This year's deficit alone will be $1.5 trillion.

Bammy and Boner want to cut the deficit by (optimistically) $4 trillion over ten years. $1.5 trillion x ten years = 15 trillion - $4 trillion = $11 trillion in aditional debt over ten years.

So instead of $1.5 trillion in further debt every year, we'll only be $1.1 trillion in additional debt every year.

[sheana]

I just don’t understand why most people don’t see that. The Republicans should be screaming it from the rooftops. Sigh.

[TenthAmendmentChampion]

On top of your numbers, the plain fact is that no congress can bind any future congress in terms of spending cuts or anything else.