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Obama vows to cut huge deficit in half (2/22/2009. Blast to the past)
politico ^ | 2/22/2009 | By MIKE ALLEN

Posted on 09/25/2012 1:39:59 PM PDT by tobyhill

President Obama will announce Monday that he plans to cut the nation’s projected annual deficit in half by the end of his first term, a senior administration official said Saturday.

The plan will make explicit what Obama officials have been suggesting for months: Contrary to his campaign promise, Obama will allow the Bush tax cuts on the wealthiest Americans expire as scheduled at the end of 2010 instead of seeking their repeal sooner. Officials determined that seeking to raise the taxes earlier during a recession was a bad idea, advisers said.

Obama, who will speak Monday to a Fiscal Responsibility Summit at the White House, also will outline steps he is taking to eliminate what his staff calls “accounting gimmicks” used by previous administrations.

“This budget actually is going to assume that there will be a hurricane, tornado, earthquake, flood or manmade disaster in the United States in fiscal year 2010, and each year going forward 10 years,” the official said. “The Bush budget never assumed that.”

Under White House projections, this year’s inherited budget deficit of $1.3 trillion will be cut to $533 billion by fiscal year 2013, the end of the first term. “So we’ll cut it at least in half,” the official said.

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Just reminding people of the promises Obama made since the Lame Stream Media won't.
1 posted on 09/25/2012 1:40:04 PM PDT by tobyhill
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To: tobyhill

Obama forgot about this before he read it


2 posted on 09/25/2012 1:44:49 PM PDT by molson209
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( Obama vows to cut huge deficit in half (2/22/2009. Blast to the past) ...

But, he has kept his promise of at least trying to cut the budget by half.... opps, I meant, deficit...

You see ?

He and his ilk consider the " Defense Budget " as a deficit that we don't really need.... it's just those peskey Republicans are keeping him from taking deep cuts in the " Defense Budget "... opps, Media speak, Defense deficit.
3 posted on 09/25/2012 1:46:41 PM PDT by American Constitutionalist
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To: tobyhill
Did the messiah not also promise that unemployment would be in the 7% area or lower?
4 posted on 09/25/2012 1:50:22 PM PDT by I miss American Motors
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The Obama administration has transitioned into that well-worn, well-proven mechanism adopted by the former Soviet Union for all those decades. The famous “Five Year Plan”....

Only Obama’s Plans are just 4 years. The trick is every 4 years a new “Plan” (often just like the previous one but now having to make up for compounded losses) is announced, and the failures of the previous ones are subsumed to the irrelvant trash heap of history.

A full blown move into Socialism using a bit of Fascism here and there to bring down capitalism until the Socialist army of leeches and entitlement ‘citizens’ has been fully consolidated.


5 posted on 09/25/2012 1:50:50 PM PDT by Gaffer
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Anyone from the Romney campaign ?

Romney needs to say " In this dangerous world and world instability, why on Earth would Obama and his people consider the " Defense Budget " as a deficit that needs to be cut ? "
6 posted on 09/25/2012 1:52:10 PM PDT by American Constitutionalist
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To: tobyhill

So, looks like he needs to extend his first term a bit longer, that’s all.


7 posted on 09/25/2012 2:11:56 PM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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Obama vows to cut huge deficit in half (2/22/2009. Blast to the past)

0bama's constituents: Promise them anything, then go play golf - they're imbeciles anyway!

8 posted on 09/25/2012 2:24:27 PM PDT by The Sons of Liberty ("Get that evil, foreign, muslim, usurping bastard out of MY White House!" FUBO GTFO!)
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9 posted on 09/25/2012 2:59:11 PM PDT by Bon mots (Abu Ghraib: 47 Times on the front page of the NY Times | Benghazi: 2 Times)
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10 posted on 09/25/2012 3:46:18 PM PDT by Bon mots (Abu Ghraib: 47 Times on the front page of the NY Times | Benghazi: 2 Times)
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